lingvo.wikisort.org - LanguageGwere, or Lugwere, is the language spoken by the Gwere people (Bagwere), a Bantu people found in the eastern part of Uganda. It has a close dialectical resemblance to Soga and Ganda, which neighbour the Gwere.
Language
Gwere |
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Native to | Uganda |
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Region | Eastern Region |
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Ethnicity | Bagwere |
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Native speakers | 410,000 (2002 census)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | gwr |
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Glottolog | gwer1238 |
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Gwere, though closest in dialect to its eastern neighbours, also has many words similar to those used by tribes from the western part of Uganda.
For example, musaiza (a man) resembles mushiiza used by the western languages with the same meaning.
The Ruli, a somewhat distant people living in central Uganda, speak a language that has almost exactly the same words used in Lugwere, but with a very different pronunciation.
Orthography and alphabet
- a - a - [ɑ]
- aa - aa - [ɑː]
- b - ba - [β]
- bb - bba - [b]
- c - ca - [c]
- d - da - [d]
- e - e - [e]
- ee - ee - [eː]
- f - fa - [f]
- g - ga - [g]
- i - i - [i]
- ii - ii - [iː]
- j - ja - [ɟ]
- k - ka - [k]
- l - la - [l]
- m - ma - [m]
- n - na - [n]
- ny - nya - [ɲ]
- ŋ - ŋa - [ŋ]
- o - o - [o]
- oo - oo - [oː]
- p - pa - [p]
- r - ra - [r]
- s - sa - [s]
- t - ta - [t]
- u - u - [u]
- uu - uu - [uː]
- v - va - [v]
- w - wa - [w]
- y - ya - [j]
- z - za - [z][3]
References
- Akinlabi, Akinbiyi (1995). Theoretical approaches to African linguistics. Africa World Press. ISBN 0-86543-463-8.
Languages of Uganda |
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Official languages | |
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Indigenous languages | Bantu | |
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Nilo-Saharan | |
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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На других языках
- [en] Gwere language
[fr] Gwere (langue)
Le gwere (ou lugwere, olugwere) est une langue bantoue parlée par la population gwere en Ouganda.
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