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The official language of Uganda is English, a direct reflection of the fact that the nation was a British colony until 1962. The spread of Swahili within the country was facilitated by the country's participation in the East African Community, which involves its Swahili-speaking neighbors of Kenya and Tanzania. English has been Uganda’s lone official language since independence in 1962. There are forty living native languages in Uganda, which can be grouped into three main language families: Bantu, Central Sudanic, and Nilotic. Kiswahili is used in Tanzania and Kenya as the national language and other countries in the East African Community have been advised to adopt the same.
Uganda's language policy directs its use in schools, although most institutions do not meet this requirement.The Luganda language has more than 4 million speakers in Uganda, in addition to non-native speakers. The Eastern Nilotic languages include Teso, Karamojong, and Bari. The spread of Swahili within the country was facilitated by the country's participation in the East African Community, which involves its Swahili-speaking neighbors of Kenya and Tanzania. Currently, Uganda which has more than 62 languages, uses English as the common language and it remains hard to adopt one of the many other languages as the National one. The language is strongly influenced by native languages and speakers in Uganda always alter non-native words so that they sound more euphonic. After independence, there were efforts to choose an indigenous official language, with Swahili and Luganda as the most considered candidates. In all of the Bantu speaking areas of Uganda, dialect continua are very common.
After independence, there were efforts to choose an indigenous official language, with Swahili and Luganda as the most considered candidates. The Eastern Sudanic languages used in Uganda are Soo, Pokot, Kuliak languages, and Elgon. The languages Ndo, Lugbara, Ma'di, and Aringa are Central Sudanic languages.In 1995, Uganda became the world's second nation to include sign language in its constitution.
Swahili, which has regional significance, is also an official and has also been adopted by the nation.English is spoken mostly by literate Ugandans, and was introduced in the colony through education, missionary work, and government. Luganda and Swahili are used as languages of inter-ethnic communication. The language falls in the greater Niger-Congo language family. Bantu languages in the country include: Nyoro, used by the Banyoro; Tooro, used by the Tooro people; Runyankole, used by the Nkore community; Rukiga, heard among the Kiga people; and Lunyole, used by the Banyole people.
The Swahili language is foreign, so it was deemed to be neutral, and in 2005 it was proposed to be Uganda's second official language. Also, Uganda’s ethnolinguistic diversity made it difficult to choose another language as the official language of Uganda. During the first decades of the twentieth century, Upon Uganda's independence in 1962, English was maintained as the official language, as it was already rooted deeply in administration, media and education. English was adopted during the country's colonial, and it remains an official language.
Also, Uganda’s ethnolinguistic diversity made it difficult to choose another language as the official language of Uganda. Uganda is a multilingual country in East Africa. Several Western Nilotic Luo languages are used in the eastern part of Uganda, such as Lango, Alur, Kuman, Acholi, and Adhola. Although Luganda was the most geographically spread language, people outside The native languages of the Ugandan people have influenced The National Swahili Council is meant to guide the planning process, implementation of interventions and allocation of resources to the usage and development of Kiswahili as a Currently, Luganda is the country's most spoken local language, and as a second language, it is second to English, and it precedes Swahili.Uganda is home to numerous other Bantu communities apart from the Baganda. For example, people around Mbarara speak Runyankore and people from Fort Portal in Tooro Kingdom speak Rutooro, but in the area between those towns, there are villages where most of the people speak a dialect that is best characterised as intermediate between Runyankore and Rutooro.
Luganda is the most widely spoken local language, and this is predominantly spoken by the Baganda people in the urban areas of Kampala, and in the localities and towns which encompass Kampala in the Buganda region. Two additional languages spoken in the country come from the Kuliak language family.
The English dialect spoken in Uganda is sometimes called Uglish or Ugandan English, and a rich local flavor characterizes the language. In recognition of the closeness of four of these languages, and to facilitate work in them such as teaching, a standardised version call It is primarily spoken in the Buganda region, which sits in Central Uganda, and includes the capital of Kampala.
Today, English in Uganda is prominently spoken in the spheres of government, education, and politics.There was a need to give a native language official status, and Swahili and Luganda were identified as potential candidates.