Luhya

Bantu language of western Kenya
Language language Q35893
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Luhya

Summary

Luhya is a language[1]. Luhya ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Luhya is in the country of Kenya[3].
  • Luhya's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Luhya's instance of is recorded as macrolanguage[5].
  • Luhya's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Luhya's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as luy[7].
  • Luhya's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85079059[8].
  • Luhya's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12047486m[9].
  • Luhya's IdRef ID is recorded as 028690745[10].
  • Luhya's subclass of is recorded as Masaba-Luhya[11].
  • Luhya's writing system is recorded as Latin script[12].
  • Luhya's IETF language tag is recorded as luy[13].
  • Luhya's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0699kq[14].
  • Luhya's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Luhya language[15].
  • Luhya's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300388754[16].
  • Luhya's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1393488[17].
  • Luhya's Glottolog code is recorded as luyi1234[18].
  • Luhya's WALS lect code is recorded as luy[19].
  • Luhya's Ethnologue.com language code is recorded as luy[20].
  • Luhya's Guthrie code is recorded as JE32[21].
  • Luhya's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LUY[22].
  • Luhya's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294923187[23].
  • Luhya's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007538659705171[24].
  • Luhya's KBpedia ID is recorded as LuhyaLanguage[25].
  • Luhya's POSIX locale identifier is recorded as luy[26].
  • Luhya's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/524db090-6fb4-4375-a0c9-8979f8040243[27].

Why It Matters

Luhya ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2] Luhya has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Luhya is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . IANA language subtag registry. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . NUGL Online – The 2nd New Updated Guthrie List. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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