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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Lusoga,Olusoga
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
‎LuSoga (Soga) is a tonal Bantu language that is spoken in ‎‎Uganda. It is the native language of people who are indigenous/originally from ‎the Busoga region. In terms of the number of speakers, is one of the major ‎languages spoken in Uganda, after English, Swahili, and Luganda. ‎However, it is mainly spoken in the Busoga region of southern Uganda by + 3 ‎million people (2007 census), which is mainly within the natural boundaries of Lake ‎Victoria to the south, Lake Kyoga to the north, the Nile river to the west and ‎the Mpologoma (Lion) river to the east of Iganga district. It is tonal in the ‎sense that a given word can change its meaning depending on its tone, i.e. some words ‎are differentiated by pitch. Words that are spelled the same may carry different ‎meanings according to their pitch. Lusoga is rich in metaphors, proverbs and ‎folktales. ‎
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Lusoga, the native language of the people of Busoga, developed over time as a ‎spoken language. Its written form is only as recent as the arrival of the Arab and ‎European traders and missionaries. It only until after the second half of the nineteenth ‎century, that Lusoga was first written down and appeared in print in its own<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=550670 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Soga Language Speakers</h2>
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1.102731, 32.396840, Uganda
9.102097, 18.281250, Africa</googlemap>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/uganda Uganda]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>xog</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Niger-Congo Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Atlantic-Congo Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Volta-Congo Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Benue-Congo Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Bantoid Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Southern Bantoid Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Narrow Bantu Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central Narrow Bantu Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[J Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Nyoro-Ganda (J.10) Group]]
 
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