Lango language

E231978

Lango is a Western Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Lango people of northern Uganda, closely related to other Luo languages.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lango language canonical 8
Lango (Uganda) language 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Luo language
Western Nilotic language
natural language
belongsToBranch Western Nilotic languages
surface form: Luo branch of Western Nilotic
closelyRelatedTo Acholi language
Adhola language
Alur language
Dholuo
continent Africa
country Uganda
ethnicGroup Lango people
glottocode lang1328
hasAlternativeName Leb Lango
Lwo Lango
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
tonal language
vowel harmony
iso639-3Code laj
languageFamily Nilotic languages
primaryStatusInUganda regional language
region Northern Region, Uganda
surface form: Northern Uganda
spokenBy Lango people
spokenIn Northern Region, Uganda
Uganda
subfamily Luo language
surface form: Luo languages

Western Nilotic languages
usedFor daily communication
local administration in Lango sub-region
oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Luo closelyRelatedTo Lango language
subject surface form: Luo language
Nilotic languages majorLanguage Lango language
Nilotic languages majorLanguage Lango language
this entity surface form: Lango (Uganda) language
Alur language closelyRelatedTo Lango language
Dholuo closelyRelatedTo Lango language
Luo language closelyRelatedTo Lango language
Western Nilotic languages hasMember Lango language
Lango people languageSpoken Lango language
Northern Region, Uganda hasLanguage Lango language