Singa language

Singa
Chula
Native toUganda
RegionRusinga Island
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3sgm
Glottologsing1266
JE.406[1]

Singa is an extinct Bantu language of Uganda.[2][3][4]

Vocabulary

Lusinga vocabulary[5]
gloss Lusinga
arrow lisuñgu
back nyuma
banana litoki

References

  1. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  2. ↑ Sommer, Gabriele (1992-12-31), "A survey on language death in Africa", in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.), Language Death, DE GRUYTER, pp. 301–418, doi:10.1515/9783110870602.301, ISBN 978-3-11-013404-9, retrieved 2026-07-31
  3. ↑ Hobley, C. W. (1902). Eastern Uganda, an ethnological survey. Anthropological institute. Occasional papers. no. l. London: Anthropological institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
  4. ↑ "A comparative study of the Bantu and semi-Bantu languages : Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2026-07-31.
  5. ↑ "The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude : Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2026-07-31.
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