Kakwa language (Africa)

For the Kakwa language of Brazil and Colombia, see Kakwa language.

The Kakwa language (also called Kakuwâ) is a Nilotic language spoken by the Kakwa people in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan.^[3]

Kakwa
Native to	Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan
Ethnicity	Kakwa
Native speakers	510,000 (2014–2023)[1][2]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Eastern Nilotic Eastern Bari Kakwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	keo
Glottolog	kakw1240  Kakwa

References

1. kakwa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
2. "2014 Uganda Population and Housing Census – Main Report" (PDF). Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
3. Onziga, Yuga Juma; Gilley, Leoma G. (2012). "Phonology of Kakuwâ (Kakwa)". Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages. 10: 1–15.