Languages of Uganda

[[Image:Languages of Uganda.png|thumb|250px|right|Ethnolinguistic map is a multilingual country. Forty of its living indigenous languages fall into three main families - Bantu, [[Nilotic =f these languages (Nkole, Tooro, Kiga, and Nyoro), and in order to facilitate work in them such as teaching, a standardized version called "Runyakitara" was developed around 1990.

In south central Uganda, the Bantu languages of Luganda and Soga are largely interintelligible.

Of Nilo-Saharan, the Eastern Sudanic branch is well represented by several Nilotic languages, eastern as well as western. Eastern Nilotic languages include Karamojong of Eastern Uganda (370,000), the Bari languages in the extreme northwestern corner (about 150,000), and Teso south of Lake Kyoga (999,537). Alur (45 language|Lango]],

Language policy

In Uganda, as in many African countries, English, the language of the colonizing power, was introduced in government and public life by way of m

During the regime of Idi Amin, Swahili, the East African lingua franca, became the second official national language, but it lost its official and national status in the 1995 Constitution. In September 2005, the Ugandan Parliament voted to once again make Swahili the second official national language. It is most widely spoken outside of Buganda.