Nilotic · ISO 639-3 laj
Lango (Uganda) Language Lwo
Lango (Uganda) is a Nilotic language spoken by about 2.1 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Lango (Uganda) is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Lango (Uganda)
Language family
- Nilotic
- Western Nilotic
- Lwoo
- Southern Lwoo
- Lango-Kumam
- Lango (Uganda)
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Lango (Uganda) language
Lango (Uganda) (Lwo) is spoken by about 2.1 million people, which makes it the 298th most spoken language in the world — just behind Swati (2.1 million) and ahead of Meru (2.1 million). It belongs to the Nilotic language family and, more precisely, to the Lango-Kumam group within the Lwoo branch.
Where is Lango (Uganda) spoken?
Lango (Uganda) is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Uganda (1.9 million).
Lango (Uganda) is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Lango (Uganda) 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 Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Alur, Acoli and Shilluk.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 laj.
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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.