Ganda
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Ganda
- Alternate names: Luganda
- Language code: lug
- Language family: Niger-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern Bantoid, Bantu, East Bantu, Northeast Savanna Bantu, Great Lakes Bantu, West Nyanza, North Nyanza
- Number of speakers: 3015980
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Ganda, sometimes known as Luganda, is a major language of Uganda, spoken by over three million people mainly in the Buganda region, which includes the Ugandan capital Kampala. It belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Typologically, it is an agglutinating language with subject-verb-object word order and nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
With 100,000 second-language speakers, it is the most widely spoken second language in Uganda next to English. The language is used in some primary schools in Buganda as pupils begin to learn English, the official language of Uganda.
The verb
Sample verb: tambula
| Distant Past | yatambula |
| Past | yatambudde |
| Immediate past | atambudde |
| Now | atambula |
| Ongoing | atambula |
| Immediate Future | anaatambula |
| Future | alitambula |
Verblist
- fa
- kuwola