Soga language

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Soga language canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternateName Lusoga NERFINISHED
Olusoga NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Luganda NERFINISHED
Lunyole NERFINISHED
Lusamia NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Uganda
endonym Olusoga
exonym Soga NERFINISHED
glottocode soga1248
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu language
Proto-Niger–Congo language NERFINISHED
hasDialects Lulamogi NERFINISHED
Lusiginyi
Lusoga of Bugabula
Lusoga of Kigulu
hasGrammaticalFeature agglutinative morphology
subject-verb-object word order
hasISOStandard ISO 639-3
hasLiterature folktales
local newspapers
religious texts
hasOrganization Lusoga Language Authority NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
tone language
hasStandardForm Standard Lusoga NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code xog
isOfficialMinorityLanguageIn Uganda NERFINISHED
languageFamily Bantu languages
Niger–Congo languages
macroArea East Africa NERFINISHED
primaryEthnicGroup Basoga NERFINISHED
region Busoga NERFINISHED
spokenBy Basoga people NERFINISHED
spokenByPopulationEstimate over 2 million speakers
spokenIn Eastern Region, Uganda NERFINISHED
Uganda NERFINISHED
subfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Luhya-Soga languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
local media
primary education (local context)
usedIn Busoga Kingdom NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Bantu E languages hasMember Soga language
Ganda closelyRelatedTo Soga language
Ganda language closelyRelatedTo Soga language