Lusoga

E275006

Lusoga is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Basoga people in eastern Uganda.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lusoga canonical 10
Lunyoro 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
belongsTo Ugandan languages
closelyRelatedTo Luganda
Lunyole
Lusamia
country Uganda
hasAlternativeName Olusoga
Soga
hasCulturalAssociation Kingdom of Busoga
surface form: Busoga Kingdom
hasDialects northern Lusoga dialects
southern Lusoga dialects
hasEthnologueEntry Lusoga language
hasGlottocode luso1244
hasGuthrieCode JE16
hasISO639-3Code xog
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
tonal language
hasNeighborLanguage Luganda
Lugwere
Lunyole
Lusamia
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
vowel harmony
hasStandardizationBody Busoga Language Authority
hasWikipediaPage Lusoga language
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isOfficialLanguageOf Kingdom of Busoga
surface form: Busoga Kingdom
isTaughtIn primary schools in Busoga region
languageBranch Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo
languageFamily Bantu
languageGroup Great Lakes Bantu languages
primaryEthnicGroup Basoga
region Busoga sub-region
surface form: Busoga region
spokenBy Basoga people
spokenIn Eastern Region of Uganda
surface form: Eastern Uganda

Uganda
usedFor local administration in Busoga region
oral literature in Busoga
traditional songs of the Basoga
usedIn education in Busoga region
local media in Busoga region
usesAlphabet Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

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

Luganda closelyRelatedTo Lusoga
Luganda closelyRelatedTo Lusoga
this entity surface form: Lunyoro
Buvuma Island languageUsed Lusoga
Jinja languageSpoken Lusoga
Busoga sub-region language Lusoga