Luganda
see also: Etymology of Luganda
The luganda (or ganda ) is a Langue spoken in Uganda by approximately four million speakers.
The luganda belongs to the family of the Langues bantoues.
Examples
Some elements of grammar:
- the verbs with infinitive are generally preceded by the prefix oku, which disappears at the time them conjugations to be replaced by a prefix " conjuguant". The conjugated verbs see the beginning of the word and the end of the modified word. As follows: okulya (to eat) and nalide (I ate), the radical of the verb okulya is thus " li".
- the luganda is a language with " classes". Mankind constitutes one of these classes, and the whole of the beings and things are distributed between the classes. There is as much way of counting the beings or the things that of class, the possessive ones, the determinants, etc are declined according to these classes. Thus to count beings human, one uses omu (1), babiri (2), banya (3), while to count languages, one uses lumu (1),…
See too
Related articles
- Linguistic
- Dictionary of the languages
External bond
- Freelang Dictionary - Dictionary luganda-French/French-luganda.
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