Niger-Congo family
Luganda
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Luganda (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Niger-Congo language. Lineage: Proto-Niger-Congo → Proto-Atlantic-Congo → Proto-Benue-Congo → Proto-Bantu → Luganda.
See Luganda on the interactive map- Speakers
- 5.6M (5,600,000)
- ISO 639-3
- lug
- Glottocode
- gand1255
Great Lakes Bantu (Guthrie JE15) language of the Baganda, Uganda's most widely spoken indigenous language.
Lineage
- Proto-Niger-Congoc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
- Proto-Atlantic-Congoc. 7,000 BCE – 5,000 BCE
- Proto-Benue-Congoc. 5,000 BCE – 3,500 BCE
- Proto-Bantuc. 3,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
- Lugandac. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 21
Also descended from Proto-Bantu.