Lugwere

E938022

Lugwere is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bagwere people in eastern Uganda.

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Label Occurrences
Lugwere canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
closelyRelatedTo Luganda NERFINISHED
Lunyole NERFINISHED
Lusoga NERFINISHED
country Uganda
countryOfficialLanguageContext not an official language of Uganda
ethnicGroup Bagwere NERFINISHED
glottocode lugw1238
hasAlternativeName Gwere NERFINISHED
Lugwere language
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasBibleTranslation partial Bible translation available
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasNeighboringLanguage Ateso NERFINISHED
Luganda NERFINISHED
Lugwere dialects of adjacent districts
Lunyole NERFINISHED
Lusoga NERFINISHED
hasNounClassSystem yes
hasOrthographyStandardizationEfforts yes
hasSpeakerCommunity Bagwere community associations in Uganda
hasTonalPhonology yes
ISO639-3Code gwr
languageFamily Bantu NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages
region Eastern Uganda NERFINISHED
spokenBy Bagwere people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Eastern Region, Uganda NERFINISHED
Uganda NERFINISHED
spokenInDistrict Budaka District NERFINISHED
Butebo District NERFINISHED
Kibuku District NERFINISHED
Pallisa District NERFINISHED
parts of Mbale District
subfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
usedAlongside English in education
Luganda in trade and communication
usedFor daily communication among Bagwere
usedIn local radio broadcasting in Eastern Uganda
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Lusoga hasNeighborLanguage Lugwere