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Kiga | Samoan | |
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Family | Niger-Congo, Bantu | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 1.6 million | Approximately 500,000 |
Features | A Bantu language closely related to Rukiga and Runyankore; known for its noun class system, tonal distinctions, and rich oral tradition. | A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa |
Countries | Uganda (primarily in the Kigezi region, southwestern Uganda) | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | Yes, tones are used to distinguish meaning | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses noun class prefixes and concords | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Bantu | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From English, Swahili, and Luganda | From English and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Kiga is closely related to Runyankore, and the two are sometimes considered dialects of a single language, though they are distinct in pronunciation and vocabulary. | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y, Z | A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ) |
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