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Language code: lua

Technical information about ISO 639 language code lua

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The table below provides technical details for the Luba-Lulua language, designated by the lua code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

lua

Name

Luba-Lulua

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Eastern Tshiluba (Luba-Lubilanji)Western Tshiluba (Luba-Lulua)
Related languages
Luba-Katanga (Kiluba)KaondeKanyokBemba
Key facts
Belongs to the Luba branch of the Bantu familyWritten with a Latin-based orthography standardized by Catholic missionaries in the 1920sHas a noun-class system of roughly 18 classes that governs agreement throughout the clauseUses two level tones (high and low) to mark both lexical and grammatical contrastsVerbal morphology encodes subject, object, tense, aspect and mood within a single verb word
Sample phrase

Moyo, udi bwene?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Luba-Lulua language, identified by the code lua, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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