Talk:Luganda language

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Some of the consonants are inaccurate (the 'dental' /t/ and /d/ are actually alveolar, as they appear in English as well. See Ladefoged et al. (1968 University of Oxford Press) for more details. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 132.205.103.174 (talk • contribs) 20:21, 11 May 2006.

I'll modify the text so that it's clear that they are alveolars. Often, dental is used in a rather vague way to describe alveolar and postalveolar sounds too. — Gareth Hughes 22:15, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Why was the cleanup tag added? it's not the above point, as the tag was added in February. --Brownlee 17:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I think it's because much of the article appears to have been taken verbatim from the buganda.com page, and, interspersed with original Wikipedia text, makes not very much sense )(e. g. the bit starting with "this discussion" Edricson 07:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

The section on phonology does not mention that Luganda is a tonal language. Does anybody have a good reference on this? I might search for it myself, but I'm not sure I'll have the time to do so. I am planning some articles on Buganda music. The tonality of the language plays an important role in the music so I would like to refer to it. Nannus 09:02, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I've replaced the section on Orthography (which I think was taken from buganda.com) with a detailed discussion of the spelling system. I think the result is a fairly comprehensive article. The only thing that's missing now is a section on the history & development of the language.