Lugbara language

Lugbara language

Infobox Language
name=Lugbara
nativename=
states=Uganda, DR Congo
speakers=1,040,000
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Nilo-Saharan
fam3=Central Sudanic
fam4=East
fam5=Moru-Madi
fam6=Central
script=
iso1=--|iso2=--|iso3=lgg

The Lugbara language is the language of the Lugbara ethnic group. It is spoken in northwestern Uganda's west Nile District, as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Orientale Province. [cite encyclopedia|last=Gordon|first=Raymond|title=Lugbara language|encyclopedia=Ethnologue: Languages of the World|publisher=SIL International|location=Dallas, Texas|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lgg|date=2005] Lugbara was first written by Christian missionaries in 1918, based on the Ayivu dialect. In 2000, a conference was held in the city of Arua in northwestern Uganda regarding the creation of a standardised internationalorthography for Lugbara. In 1992, the government of Uganda designated it as one of five "languages of wider communication" to be used as the medium of instruction in primary education; however, unlike the other four such languages, it was never actually used in schools. [cite paper|title=Writing unwritten languages|publisher=UNESCO|url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/16455/10893858671Writing_unwritten_languages.doc/Writing_unwritten_languages.doc|author=Da Fonseca, N.]

Aringa language, also known as Low Lugbara, is closely related, and sometimes considered a dialect of Lugbara. [Douglas Boone, Richard Watson, 1999. " [http://www.sil.org/silesr/1999/001/mmsurvey-w97.pdf Moru-Ma'di Survey Report.] " SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 1999-001.] Some scholars classify Lugbara language itself as a dialect of the Ma'di language, though this is not generally accepted. [cite book|last=Blackings|first=Mairi|coauthors=Nigel Fabb|publisher=Mouton de Gruyter|id=ISBN 3110179407|date=2003|title=A Grammar of Ma'di|pages=p. 1]

See also

* Districts of Uganda

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