#luganda

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A Year in Language, day 24: Luganda

Luganda is one of the major languages of Uganda and competes in the country with English and Swahili for breadth of use. It's is a Bantu language, a family of languages that covers almost all of sub-Saharan Africa. Considering the size of the language family it would be nice to give a more specific branch but the internal genealogical structure of the bantu languages is a bit of a mess for modern topologists. Luganda could be classified as "Great Lakes Bantu", "Northeast Bantu" or even "Zone J Bantu"

Like most Bantu languages, Luganda has roughly ten grammatical genders, verbs that agree with subject and object, and is tonal, though it only has three tones; high, falling, and low.

If you're wondering if the "ganda" part of Luganda and Uganda are related, you're correct! The "Lu" in Luganda is a case marker and "ganda" is an ethonym (name for an ethnic group). A single member of the "ganda" ethnic group is a "muganda", taking the case normally associated with people. To refer to the people as a whole you pluralize it to "baganda". The country of these people? Easy, just swap genders to "Buganda", which is a kingdom within the modern country of Uganda and its namesake.

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New Video: Bebe Cool x Sauti Sol – Mbozi Za Malwa

​Legendary Reggae, Dancehall Bebe Cool (Uganda) and MTV Best Group winners Sauti Sol (Kenya) are thrilled to announce the release of their new video titled ‘Mbozi Za Malwa’, Luganda for conversations that usually take place when friends are having a drink at the locals.

The video was shot in Kampala (Uganda) at the Hilton hotel by the renowned music director, Sasha Vybz.

“Bebe Cool is truly a legend and working with him has been great a experience. We got to learn a lot from him throughout the entire audio creation process to the video production. We hope that the song will unify Kenyans and Ugandas more than ‘Matoke’ haha.’’ Said Sauti Sol

“Watching Sauti Sol singing their verses in Luganda proves that music truly is a universal language for all mankind that we can use to communicate any message” Bebe Cool added in his statement”

 Watch, share and enjoy “Mbozi Za Malwa”.

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growing up not speaking Luganda is so funny because I really believed this was a Luganda song for most of my life… despite it not being one, very representative of my Ugandan American upbringing

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My husband spent most of his childhood in Uganda. He struggled with learning Luganda (the local language where he grew up) while he was living there. He also hasn’t spoken Luganda conversationally in years since he’s been living in the states. He still knows the basics, but he’s not necessarily in a spot to teach me.

But the language is so cool! The flow is beautiful. I’ve really wanted to learn and didn’t know where to start.

Then today I finally thought to check YouTube and holy shit! There are a bunch of people teaching!!! I’m so excited and feel so stupid for not checking sooner.

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simanyi - not known;

fiona apple - i know