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Lendu

Ленду · Q2375955

language area per Glottologcensus counts
18,801
Uganda, census 2024 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Central Sudanic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Uganda: 18,801 people in the 2024 census.

Main language: Lendu. Glottolog classifies it in the Central Sudanic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Uganda2024 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lendu» · [1]
18,801

Languages and their lineage

Lendu

  1. Central Sudaniccent2225
  2. Lenduiclend1246
  3. Balebale1255
  4. Lendulend1245

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Lugbara people

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Uganda, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)