🇺🇬 Country

Uganda

Uganda is home to 53 languages, spoken across East Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Kampala

Nationality Ugandan

Currency Ugandan Shilling (UGX)

Languages 53

Independence Oct 9, 1962

48 active 3 endangered 2 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Uganda; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

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Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.

All languages in Uganda

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