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Languages of Uganda

The Linguasphere Register records 7 entries for Uganda, spread across 4 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

7Register entries
4Sectors present
6Zones
0Language entries

0= AFRICA 1= AFRO-ASIAN 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN

Register entries recorded in Uganda

CodeEntryLevelNote
03=SUDANICZoneCovers the "Central Sudanic" grouping (part of the "Nilo-Saharan" hypothesis).
04=NILOTICZoneCovers the "Nilotic" grouping (part of the "East-Sudanic" hypothesis within the "Nilo-Saharan" hypothesis).
07=RIFT-VALLEYZoneCovers the "Rift-Valley" reference area (composed of sets not covered by any phylozone).
12=SEMITICZoneCovers the "Semitic" or ’Aramita + Amarinya set, part of the "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic" intercontinental …
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
99=BANTUICZoneCovers the "broad Bantu", "narrow Bantu + Bantoid" or Isizulu + Tiv set (the central-southern section of "old …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.