Lango language

Information about Lango language

Lango ()
Spoken in:Uganda
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Total speakers:1 million (1991 census)
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ISO 639-1
ISO 639-2
SIL
See also: Language – List of languages


This article is about the Lango language in Uganda. For other uses, see Lango (disambiguation).


Lango (also called Lwo, Lwoo, Leb-Lano, or Langi) is a Western Nilotic language of the Luo branch, spoken by the Langi in Uganda. It is mostly spoken in Lira District, in central Uganda. Spoken by approximately 1 million speakers, it makes up for c. 5 per cent of the population of Uganda. An orthography for it using the Latin script has been introduced and is taught in primary schools.

Lango is also the name of several other unrelated Nilotic languages spoken in Sudan.

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Motto
"For God and My Country"
Anthem
Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty


Capital Kampala

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This is a list of languages, ordered by the number of native-language speakers, with some data for second-language use. Languages are listed for secondary locations only when spoken by more than 1% of the population.
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A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language. As with biological families, the evidence of relationship is observable shared characteristics.
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Afrikaans Die Taalkommissie, South Africa
Arabic Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية, Syria, Egypt, Jordan,
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ISO 639 is the set of international standards that lists short codes for language names.

ISO 639 consists of different parts, of which two parts have been approved and a third part that is in the final approval (FDIS) stage. The other parts are works in progress.
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in
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See Language (journal) for the linguistics journal.


A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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lists of languages:
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Lango may refer to:
  • Lango, an ethnic group in Uganda
  • Lango language, their language
  • Lango, an ethnic group in Sudan
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The Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. The about 22 (SIL estimate) Western Nilotic languages are spoken in an area ranging from Southern Sudan (Dinka) via
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Main article: Luo
The Luo languages comprise about 15 languages spoken in an area ranging from Southern Sudan via Uganda to Southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into Northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic
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Lango (plural Langi) people live in Lango sub-region in the central area of Uganda, north of Lake Kyoga. Lango Sub-region comprises the districts of Amolatar, Apac, Dokolo, Lira and Oyam. The Lango population is about 1.5 million according to the 2002 population census.
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Motto
"For God and My Country"
Anthem
Oh Uganda, Land of Beauty


Capital Kampala

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Lira is a district in Lango sub-region in northern Uganda. Like other Ugandan districts, it is named after its 'chief town', Lira town. The majority ethnic group is the Lango.
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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
Armenian
Runic/Futhark
Unicode range See Latin characters in Unicode
ISO 15924 Latn

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Motto
"Al-Nasr Lana"   (Arabic)
"Victory is Ours"
Anthem
نحن جند للہ جند الوطن   (Arabic)

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