Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 gog
Gogo Language Cigogo
Gogo is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Gogo is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Gogo
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Narrow Bantu
- East Bantu
- Northeast Savanna Bantu
- Northeast Coastal Bantu
- Ruvu
- West Ruvu
- Gogo
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Gogo language
Gogo (Cigogo) is spoken by about 1.4 million people, which makes it the 390th most spoken language in the world — just behind Bukusu (1.4 million) and ahead of Western Armenian (1.4 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the West Ruvu group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Gogo spoken?
Gogo is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Tanzania (1.4 million).
Gogo is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gogo 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 Shambala, Swahili, Congo Swahili, Segeju, Giryama, Ngazidja Comorian and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gog.
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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.