Gwere, or ''Lugwere,'' is the language spoken by the
Gwere people
The Gwere people, or ''Bagwere'', are a Bantu ethnic group in Uganda.
Location
The Bagwere occupy an area of 2,388.3 km in eastern Uganda, mostly in Budaka District, Pallisa District and Kibuku District, Butebo District, where they make up over ...
(''Bagwere''), a
Bantu
Bantu may refer to:
*Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the NigerβCongo languages
*Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language
* Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle
* Black Association for Nationa ...
people found in the eastern part of
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The ...
. It has a close dialectical resemblance to
Soga and
Ganda
Ganda may refer to:
Places
* Ganda, Angola
* Ganda, Tibet, China
* Ganda, the ancient Latin name of Ghent, a city in Belgium
Other uses
* Baganda or Ganda, a people of Uganda
** Luganda or Ganda language, a language of Uganda
* ''Ganda'' and "Ga ...
, which neighbour the Gwere.
Gwere, though closest in dialect to its eastern neighbours, also has many words similar to those used by tribes from the western part of Uganda.
For example, ''musaiza'' (''a man'') resembles ''mushiiza'' used by the western languages with the same meaning.
The
Ruli, a somewhat distant people living in central Uganda, speak
a language that has almost exactly the same words used in Lugwere, but with a very different pronunciation.
Orthography and alphabet
* a - a -
* aa - aa -
Λ* b - ba -
²* bb - bba -
* c - ca -
* d - da -
* e - e -
* ee - ee -
Λ* f - fa -
* g - ga -
* i - i -
* ii - ii -
Λ* j - ja -
* k - ka -
* l - la -
* m - ma -
* n - na -
* ny - nya -
²* Ε - Εa -
* o - o -
* oo - oo -
Λ* p - pa -
* r - ra -
* s - sa -
* t - ta -
* u - u -
* uu - uu -
Λ* v - va -
* w - wa -
* y - ya -
* z - za -
re
Gwere Omniglot.
References
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Languages of Uganda
Nyoro-Ganda languages