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    South Sudan and Kenya. Uganda is a multilingual country with over 70 generally estimated languages spoken. 43 of its living languages fall into four main...
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    Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South...
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    The Nilotic languages are a group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples. The word Nilotic...
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    native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Bantu languages, Nilo-Saharan languages and Arabic. Youth in Uganda Wikimedia...
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  • and Tanzania) Alur Lango–Kumam Kumam Lango (Uganda) According to Mechthild Reh, the Northern Luo languages are classified as follows: Northern Shilluk...
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    Central Region of Uganda. An orthography for it using the Latin script has been introduced and is taught in primary schools. The origin of Lango people...
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    cognates in the Pokomo, Taita, and Mijikenda languages and, to a lesser extent, other East African Bantu languages. While opinions vary on the specifics, it...
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    "The Nilo-Saharan Language Phylum". Numeral Systems of the World's Languages. Heine, Bernd (1976). The Kuliak Languages of Eastern Uganda. Nairobi: East...
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    (2010). Uganda. Marshall Cavendish. p. 96. ISBN 9780761448594. Of the non-Ugandan languages, Hindi and Gujarati are commonly spoken among members of the Asian...
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  • Bantu language spoken by the Banyole in Butaleja District, Uganda. There is 61% lexical similarity with a related but different Nyole language in Kenya...
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  • Uganda has many tribes that speak different languages. The following is a list of all Ugandan tribes in alphabetical order. This list refers to Article...
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  • Ugandan Sign Language (USL) is the deaf sign language of Uganda. Uganda was the second country in the world to recognize sign language in its constitution...
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  • Luganda (redirect from Luganda language)
    Oluganda, [oluɡâːndá]) 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...
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  • Kinyarwanda (redirect from Rwandi language)
    spoken in Burundi and adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda (where there is a dialect known as Rufumbira or Urufumbira) and Tanzania...
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    official languages of Uganda, even though English is more popular. Swahili, the East African lingua franca, is not widespread as a language though it...
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  • Nilotic language of the Karo people, spoken over large areas of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, across the northwest corner of Uganda, and into...
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    over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...
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  • The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi, Arabic: كي-نوبي, romanized: kī-nūbī) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo...
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    Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari...
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  • Teuth) is one of the Kuliak languages of northeastern Uganda. The Kuliak languages form their own branch of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. With...
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  • Etymological Lexicon: Exploring an extinct, unclassified Ugandan language Languages portal Linguistics portal Africa portal Biography of John G. Wilson...
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  • Moru–Madi languages of the Central Sudanic language family are a cluster of closely related languages spoken in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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    predominant religion in Uganda. According to the 2014 census, over 84 percent of the population was Christian, while about 14 percent of the population adhered...
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    a list of noted Ugandan poets, poets born or raised in Uganda, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the Languages of Uganda. Grace...
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  • forests of Uganda were gradually cleared for agriculture by people who probably spoke Central Sudanic languages. In 1894, Uganda became a protectorate of the...
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  • Nilotic languages are spoken mainly in western Kenya and northern Tanzania (with one of them, Kupsabiny or Sapiny, being spoken on the Ugandan side of Mount...
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  • and Runyankole) is a Bantu language spoken by the Nkore ("Banyankore") of south-western Uganda in the former province of Ankole, as well as in Tanzania...
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  • Bantu language spoken by the Soga people of the Busoga region in Eastern Uganda. With over three million speakers, it is one of the major languages of Uganda...
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  • the center and south of Masaba territory in Uganda. Bukusu is spoken in Kenya, separated from ethnic Masaba by Nilotic languages on the border. See Bukusu...
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  • is a language spoken in western Kenya and eastern Uganda by the Pokot people. Pökoot is classified to the northern branch of the Kalenjin languages found...
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