LuGanda

Examples

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• In this article, I follow standard usage by referring to the kingdom of Buganda, peopled by Baganda (plural), in which any Muganda (singular) would speak Luganda.

  Academic text (2005)

• Although the local research assistants were fluent in both languages, the translation from Luganda into English while conducting the interview may have resulted in some inaccuracies.

  Academic text (2010)

• This confusion may well have expressed a fundamental difference in political and identity categories between those who thought in English and those who thought in Luganda.

  Academic text (2005)

• The Luganda term suggests a degree of collective identification or closeness between self and leader that is confusing when translated.

  Academic text (2005)

• He picked up the printed sheet, made the sign of the cross, then very slowly and solemnly read in Luganda.

  Fiction book (1999)

• They seemed, in Luganda, to be considering the circumstance with consternation.

  Fiction book (1996)

• When they returned to Kenya in 1967, his father's parents were concerned that their grandchildren, who had learned Luganda, the language of Uganda, did not speak their language, Lubukusu.

  Academic text (2005)

• Judging from usage, original Luganda terms differed from English at the very least in specifying patrilineal relations (thus relations within a given clan) rather than bilateral ones (relations that would by definition cross clan boundaries).

  Academic text (2005)

• The Luganda prefixes mentioned above apply to other nouns as well: thus the Bataka (roughly "clans") fought for control over Butaka lands, and every Muganda is a Mutaka.

  Academic text (2005)

• He picked up the printed sheet, made the sign of the cross, then very slowly and solemnly read in LuGanda.

Surface Forms

Etymology