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The African Storybook (ASb) is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa.
Uganda, [b] officially the Republic of Uganda, [c] is a landlocked country in East Africa.It 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.
This is a list of notable books written by writers hailing from or living in Uganda . Abyssinian Chronicles (1998) by Moses Isegawa. [1] The African Saga (1998) by Susan Nalugwa Kiguli. [9] Building the nation and other poems (2000) by Christopher Henry Muwanga Barlow. [3] Fate of the Banished (1997) by Julius Ocwinyo. [4]
The speech patterns of Ugandan languages strongly influence spoken English. Uganda has a large variety of indigenous languages, and someone familiar with Uganda can readily identify the native language of a person speaking English. The Bantu languages spoken in southern Uganda tend not to have consonants sounded alone without a vowel in the ...
In Uganda, as in many African countries, English was introduced in government and public life by way of missionary work and the educational system. During the first decades of the twentieth century, Swahili gained influence as it was not only used in the army and the police, but was also taught in schools.
The term Kalenjin comes from an expression meaning 'I say (to you)' or 'I have told you' (present participle tense). Kalenjin in this broad linguistic sense should not be confused with Kalenjin as a term for the common identity the Nandi-speaking peoples of Kenya assumed halfway through the twentieth century; see Kalenjin people and Kalenjin ...
Nyoro or Runyoro (Orunyoro, IPA: [oɾuɲôɾo]) is a Bantu language spoken by the Nyoro people of Uganda. It has two dialects: Runyoro proper and Rutagwenda . A standardized orthography was established in 1947. [ 3 ]
Ganda or Luganda [4] (/ l uː ˈ ɡ æ n d ə / loo-GAN-də; [5] Oluganda [oluɡâːndá]) [6] is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 5.56 million Baganda [7] and other people principally in central Uganda, including the country's capital, Kampala.