Country Info

Uganda Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 28,965,312 people (73% of Uganda) that can read or write at least one language.

13 Writing Systems used in Uganda

Swahili (Latin)

sw-latn
language code
29,677,575
people

Ganda (Latin)

lg-latn
language code
5,144,113
people

Nyankole (Latin)

nyn-latn
language code
2,492,916
people

Chiga (Latin)

cgg-latn
language code
2,136,785
people

Soga (Latin)

xog-latn
language code
2,097,215
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
1,543,233
people

Teso (Latin)

teo-latn
language code
1,543,233
people

Lango (Uganda) (Latin)

laj-latn
language code
1,503,663
people

Acoli (Latin)

ach-latn
language code
1,464,093
people

Masaaba (Latin)

myx-latn
language code
1,147,532
people

Kinyarwanda (Latin)

rw-latn
language code
830,972
people

Tooro (Latin)

ttj-latn
language code
751,831
people

Hindi (Devanagari)

hi-deva
language code
2,215
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR