Lusamia

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Lusamia is a Bantu language spoken by the Samia people living around the Kenya–Uganda border region in East Africa.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Lusamia canonical 6
Lusamia-Samya 1
Ugandan Lusamia 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
belongsToCluster Luhya–Samia cluster ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Luhya languages ⓘ
Lunyole ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
countryDistribution Busia County, Kenya ⓘ
Eastern Uganda ⓘ
linked to: eastern Uganda
ethnicGroup Samia ⓘ
glottologCode lusa1247 ⓘ
glottologName Lusamia-Samya ⓘ
linked to: Lusamia
hasAlternativeName Olusamia ⓘ
Samia ⓘ
hasDialects Kenyan Lusamia ⓘ
Ugandan Lusamia ⓘ
linked to: Lusamia
hasNeighborLanguage Luganda ⓘ
Lunyole ⓘ
Lusoga ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature tone language ⓘ
iso639-3Code lsm ⓘ
languageBranch Niger–Congo ⓘ
languageFamily Bantu ⓘ
languageStatus regional language ⓘ
region Kenya–Uganda border region ⓘ
spokenBy Samia people ⓘ
spokenIn East Africa ⓘ
Kenya ⓘ
Uganda ⓘ
subclassOf Great Lakes Bantu language ⓘ
Niger–Congo language ⓘ
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
noun class system ⓘ
usedIn daily communication among Samia people ⓘ
wordOrder SVO ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lusoga → hasNeighborLanguage → Lusamia ⓘ
Samia → alternateName → Lusamia ⓘ
Aggrey Awori → languageSpoken → Lusamia ⓘ
Olusoga → closelyRelatedTo → Lusamia ⓘ
Soga → neighboringLanguages → Lusamia ⓘ
Lusamia → glottologName → Lusamia-Samya ⓘ
linked to: Lusamia
Lusamia → hasDialects → Ugandan Lusamia ⓘ
linked to: Lusamia