Ganda

E275005

Ganda is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Uganda, where it serves as a major lingua franca and the language of the Baganda people.

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Label Occurrences
Ganda canonical 10

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
natural language
alternativeName Luganda
closelyRelatedTo Nyoro language
Soga language
Tooro language
country Uganda
ethnicGroup Baganda
GuthrieClassification JE15
hasBibleTranslation Bible translated into Luganda
hasDialects rural varieties of Luganda
standard Luganda
hasGrammarDescription descriptive grammars published in English
hasMedia newspapers in Luganda
radio broadcasts in Luganda
television programs in Luganda
hasOrthography standard Luganda orthography based on Latin alphabet
ISO639-1Code lg
ISO639-2Code lug
languageFamily Bantu languages
Niger–Congo languages
linguisticArea Great Lakes Region of Africa
surface form: Great Lakes region of Africa
morphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
numberOfSpeakers millions of speakers
phonologicalFeature has tone
has vowel length contrast
primaryRegion Central Region, Uganda
surface form: Central Region of Uganda
region Buganda
role language of the Baganda people
major lingua franca in Uganda
standardizedIn 20th century
subfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages
surface form: Great Lakes Bantu

Narrow Bantu
usedAs language of administration at local level in Uganda
language of education in Uganda
language of media in Uganda
usedBy Baganda
surface form: Baganda people

many non-Baganda Ugandans as lingua franca
usedIn local literature in Uganda
popular music in Uganda
religious services in Uganda
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (10)

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