Rukiga

E705636

Rukiga is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bakiga people in southwestern Uganda.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Rukiga canonical 22

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
associatedWith Bakiga culture
Kigezi highlands
linked to: Kigezi Highlands
closelyRelatedTo Runyankore
linked to: Runyankole

Runyankore-Rukiga
linked to: Runyankole
continent Africa
country Uganda
ethnicGroup Bakiga
glottocode chig1238
hasAlternativeName Kiga
Orukiga
Rukiga language
hasBibleTranslation Bible translated into Rukiga
hasGrammaticalFeature agglutinative morphology
subject-verb-object word order
hasLiterature folktales and proverbs
religious texts
hasNeighborLanguage Rukonjo
Runyankore
linked to: Runyankole

Rutooro
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
tone
hasStandardForm Runyankore-Rukiga standard in Ugandan media
ISO639-2Code cgg
ISO639-3Code cgg
languageFamily Bantu
linguisticClassification Atlantic–Congo languages
Bantu languages
Benue–Congo languages
Niger-Congo languages
Southern Bantoid languages
officialStatus recognized local language in Uganda
partOfDialectCluster Nyankore-Kiga
linked to: Nyankore
region Kigezi region
spokenBy Bakiga people
hundreds of thousands of speakers
spokenIn Uganda
spokenPrimarilyIn southwestern Uganda
linked to: Southwestern Uganda
subfamily East Bantu languages
linked to: Bantu E languages

Great Lakes Bantu languages
usedFor daily communication
local media
oral literature
usedIn Kigezi sub-region of Uganda
usedInEducation early primary education in some areas of Uganda
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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