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‎ Linguistically, the Soga are part of the Bantu peoples.

Soga has several dialects dating to the intermingling of people ‎ during the early migration period of the 17th and 18th centuries.

There were so many ‎ dialects that it was difficult to reach agreement on the correct ‎ way to spell or pronounce certain words.

For instance, in the north of Busoga, ‎ there is an ' H ' in many words which does not appear in dialects of southern ‎‎ Busoga.

Thus ‎ Busoga was divided into two dialect zones.

Across the northern zone, the dialects Lulamogi and Lupakoyo were spoken.

Lupakoyo closely resembled Nyoro.

It had a close belt of Runyoro ‎ associated dialects running east from Bunyoro, across the northern region of ‎‎ Buganda, across northern Busoga and through Bugwere, which is east of ‎‎ Busoga.

In the southern part of Busoga a dialect known as Lutenga was ‎ traditionally spoken which resembled Luganda.

Related dialects were also spoken ‎ in the Ssese Islands, Buvuma Island and eastern Buganda .‎