Luganda

Also known as Ganda, Oluganda

Ganda or Luganda ( ; ) is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 5.56 million Ugandans Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, including the country's capital, Kampala. Typologically, it is an agglutinative, tonal language with subject–verb–object word order and nominative–accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

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Luganda is a Bantu language spoken by more than 5.56 million people in central Uganda, including the capital city of Kampala, making it one of the country's major languages. It is an agglutinative, tonal language with a subject-verb-object word order, which shapes how words and grammar function in the language.

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Language.ref: e25
Language.name: Ganda
Language.states: Uganda
Language.region: Buganda
Language.ethnicity: Baganda
Language.speakers: L1: million
Language.date: 2014
Language.speakers2: L2: million (2014)
Language.speakers_label: Speakers
Language.familycolor: Niger-Congo
Language.fam2: Atlantic–Congo
Language.fam3: Volta-Congo
Language.fam4: Benue–Congo
Language.fam5: Bantoid
Language.fam6: Southern Bantoid
Language.fam7: Bantu
Language.fam8: Northeast Bantu
Language.fam9: Great Lakes Bantu

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Wikimedia language code: lg
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1000000
native label: Luganda
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LUG
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Contents

History
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Tone
Phonotactics
Variant pronunciations
Alternative analysis
Orthography
Vowels
Consonants
Alphabet
Grammar
Noun classes
Nouns
Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Self-Standing Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Possessive
Verbs
Subjects
Objects
Negative
Modified stems
Tense and mood
Present tense
Past tenses
Future tenses
Other
Auxiliary verbs
Derivational affixes
Combinations of modifications
Numbers
Sample text
Translation
References
Bibliography
External links

With at least 5.6 million first-language speakers in the Buganda region and 5.4 million second language speakers fluent elsewhere in different regions especially in major urban areas like Mbale, Tororo, Jinja, Gulu, Mbarara, Hoima, Kasese etc. Luganda is Uganda's de facto language of national identity as it is the most widely spoken Ugandan language used mostly in trade in urban areas. The language is also the most-spoken unofficial language in Rwanda's capital Kigali. As a second language, it follows English and precedes Swahili in Uganda.