3.2.4.5 Bilingualism among Lugbaras
There is no claim that the ten men interviewed in Uganda are representative even of men twenty, thirty, thirty-five and forty years old, much less the whole population.
All spoke English, and five reported that they spoke Swahili (four well and one a little). The two 'southern Ma'di' had learned Lugbara and four Lugbara said they spoke a little Ma'di. Two men from Aringa had some knowledge of Arabic (both had lived for a time in Sudan); one person said he spoke Kakwa well, another "a little Kakwa." Five other languages were mentioned by one person each as a language he spoke "a little": Acholi, Alur, Ateso, Luo, and Luganda.
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