Type Country
Usage English, Eastern African, Ganda, Swahili, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay
Scripts Уганда(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) უგანდა(Georgian) Ուգանդա(Armenian) אוגנדה(Hebrew) اوگاندا(Persian) ウガンダ(Japanese Katakana) 우간다(Korean Hangul)
Pronounced Pron. yoo-GAN-də(English) oo-GAN-da(German, Italian, Spanish, Polish) oo-GUN-du(Portuguese) oo-GAN-də(Catalan) OO-gahn-dah(Finnish) OO-gawn-daw(Hungarian) uw-GAN-də(Russian) OO-gan-da(Czech) OO-GAHN-DAH(Georgian) oo-GAHN-dah(Armenian) OO-GAN-DA(Japanese, Korean) [key·IPA]
Meaning & History
From Buganda, the name of a kingdom within Uganda, which means "land of the Ganda" in the Luganda language. The Ganda are an ethnic group, their name possibly deriving from a Bantu word meaning "family". Uganda is a landlocked country in eastern Africa.
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