Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 lug · lg
Ganda Language Oluganda
Ganda is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 5.6 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Ganda is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Ganda
About the Ganda language
Ganda (Oluganda) is spoken by about 5.6 million people, which makes it the 170th most spoken language in the world — just behind Betawi (5.6 million) and ahead of Kabyle (5.6 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the North Nyanza group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Ganda spoken?
Ganda is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Uganda (6.4 million).
Ganda is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Ganda is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Kenyi, Soga, Nyankole, Chiga, Haya, Kinyarwanda and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 lg, ISO 639-3 lug.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.