Luganda
| Luganda | ||
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Spoken in |
Uganda | |
| speaker | 5 million | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in |
 Buganda , in Uganda
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
lg |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
lug |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Luganda (also: Ganda ) is the African common Southern Uganda Bantu language that the people of the Baganda in the Kingdom of Buganda is spoken (central Uganda).
There she plays an important role in radio , the press and primary school education. At the end of the 19th century it was written using the Latin alphabet . In 1947 the Luganda standard orthography was made binding at the All-Baganda Conference. Next to English, Luganda is most commonly spoken in Buganda. Luganda is taught in elementary and secondary schools as well as at Makerere University in Kampala.
Web links
Wiktionary: Luganda - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Speaking and Writing Luganda , Grammar (English)
- Small vocabulary ( memento from November 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive )