Lusamia

E935949

Lusamia is a Bantu language spoken by the Samia people living around the Kenya–Uganda border region in East Africa.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Lusamia canonical 6
Lusamia-Samya 1
Ugandan Lusamia 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
belongsToCluster Luhya–Samia cluster
closelyRelatedTo Luhya languages
Lunyole
continent Africa
countryDistribution Busia County, Kenya
Eastern Uganda
linked to: eastern Uganda
ethnicGroup Samia
glottologCode lusa1247
glottologName Lusamia-Samya
linked to: Lusamia
hasAlternativeName Olusamia
Samia
hasDialects Kenyan Lusamia
Ugandan Lusamia
linked to: Lusamia
hasNeighborLanguage Luganda
Lunyole
Lusoga
hasPhonologicalFeature tone language
iso639-3Code lsm
languageBranch Niger–Congo
languageFamily Bantu
languageStatus regional language
region Kenya–Uganda border region
spokenBy Samia people
spokenIn East Africa
Kenya
Uganda
subclassOf Great Lakes Bantu language
Niger–Congo language
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
usedIn daily communication among Samia people
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lusoga hasNeighborLanguage Lusamia
Samia alternateName Lusamia
Aggrey Awori languageSpoken Lusamia
Olusoga closelyRelatedTo Lusamia
Soga neighboringLanguages Lusamia
Lusamia glottologName Lusamia-Samya
linked to: Lusamia
Lusamia hasDialects Ugandan Lusamia
linked to: Lusamia