Southern Luo language
Southern Luo is a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries. Although Southern Luo dialects are mutually intelligible, there are six ethnically and culturally distinct varieties which are considered to be separate languages socially.
| Southern Luo (Lwo) | |
|---|---|
| Region | South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC |
Native speakers | 8.8 million (2001–2009)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | luo |
| ISO 639-3 | adh – Adhola |
| Glottolog | sout2831 |
Proto-Southern Luo has been reconstructed by Blount & Curley (1970).[2]
References
- Adhola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Dholuo (Kavirondo Luo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Alur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Acholi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - Blount, Ben and Curley, Richard T. 1970. The Southern Luo Languages: A Glottochronological Reconstruction. Journal of African Languages 9: 1-18.
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