Rukiga

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Rukiga is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bakiga people in southwestern Uganda.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
associatedWith Bakiga culture
Kigezi highlands NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Runyankore NERFINISHED
Runyankore-Rukiga NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Uganda
ethnicGroup Bakiga NERFINISHED
glottocode chig1238
hasAlternativeName Kiga NERFINISHED
Orukiga NERFINISHED
Rukiga language NERFINISHED
hasBibleTranslation Bible translated into Rukiga
hasGrammaticalFeature agglutinative morphology
subject-verb-object word order
hasLiterature folktales and proverbs
religious texts
hasNeighborLanguage Rukonjo NERFINISHED
Runyankore NERFINISHED
Rutooro NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
tone
hasStandardForm Runyankore-Rukiga standard in Ugandan media
ISO639-2Code cgg
ISO639-3Code cgg NERFINISHED
languageFamily Bantu
linguisticClassification Atlantic–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Benue–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Niger-Congo languages NERFINISHED
Southern Bantoid languages
officialStatus recognized local language in Uganda
partOfDialectCluster Nyankore-Kiga NERFINISHED
region Kigezi region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Bakiga people NERFINISHED
hundreds of thousands of speakers
spokenIn Uganda NERFINISHED
spokenPrimarilyIn southwestern Uganda NERFINISHED
subfamily East Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
local media
oral literature
usedIn Kigezi sub-region of Uganda NERFINISHED
usedInEducation early primary education in some areas of Uganda
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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