Lango (language)
| Lango | ||
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Spoken in |
Uganda | |
| speaker | approx. 978,000 (as of 1991) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 | ||
Lango (own name: leb lango ) is a West Nilotic language spoken by almost one million people in Uganda .
These belong to the Langi ethnic group . The lango is used in elementary school classes , in radio programs, and in newspapers, and is written using the Latin alphabet .
annotation
There is another African language called Lango , which belongs to the East Nilotic languages and is spoken by around 20,000 people in Sudan (language code according to ISO 639-3 : lno).
literature
- Bruno Carollo: A practical Lango grammar and dictionary . Università di Trieste, Trieste 1991.
- Michael Noonan: A grammar of Lango . Mouton Grammar Library . Vol. 7. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin a. New York 1992.