Southern Luo Languages

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Southern Luo (Lwo)
Southern Lwoo
Region	South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC
Ethnicity	Luo peoples
Native speakers	8.8 million (2001–2009)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Southern Eastern? Nilotic Western Luo Southern Luo (Lwo)
Dialects	Acholi Adhola–Alur–Luo Kumam–Lango
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`luo`
ISO 639-3	Variously: `adh` – Adhola `kdi` – Kumam `luo` – Dholuo `alz` – Alur `laj` – Lango `ach` – Acholi
Glottolog	`sout2831`

Southern Luo is a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries. Although Southern Luo dialects are mutually intelligible,^{[citation needed]} there are six ethnically and culturally distinct varieties which are considered to be separate languages socially.^{[citation needed]}

Proto-Southern Luo has been reconstructed by Blount & Curley (1970).^[2]

Varieties

The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the Glottolog database as follows:^[3]

Southern Lwoo
- Acoli
- Adhola–Alur–Luo
  - Adhola–Luo
    - Adhola
    - Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
  - Alur
- Lango–Kumam
  - Kumam
  - Lango (Uganda)

References

^ Adhola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kumam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Dholuo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Alur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Lango 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.
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Southern Lwoo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-11-21. Retrieved 2023-11-20.

Languages of Uganda

Official languages

Indigenous
languages

Bantu	Amba Gungu Gwere Khayo Kiga Kinyarwanda Luganda Luhya Marachi Masaba Nkore Nkore-Kiga Nyole Nyoro Nyoro-Tooro Ruuli Samia Singa Soga Talinga Tooro
Nilo-Saharan	Acholi Adhola Alur Aringa Bari Elgon Ik Karamojong Kuku Lango Lugbara Nyang'i Pökoot Soo Southern Luo Teso
Others	Runyakitara Nubi Oropom
Immigrant languages	English French Punjabi Spanish German Italian Hindi Hebrew Arabic Chinese Portuguese Japanese Russian Danish Dutch

Eastern Sudanic languages

Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family

Northern k languages

Nubian

Birgid Dongolawi Kenzi Midob Nobiin Old Nubian
Hill Nubian	Dair Dilling El Hugeirat Ghulfan Haraza Kadaru Karko Wali

Nara

Nara

North	Majang
Southeast	Kwegu Meʼen Mursi Suri
Southwest	Baale Didinga Murle Laarim Tennet

Eastern Jebel

Temein

Daju

Eastern	Logorik Shatt
Western	Beigo Daju Mongo Nyolge Nyala Sila

Nilotic

Large group listed below

Nilotic languages

Eastern

Bari	Bari Kuku Mandari
Teso–Turkana	Karamojong Teso Toposa Turkana Nyangatom
Lotuko	Dongotono Lango (South Sudan) Lokoya Lopit Otuho
Ongamo–Maa	Maasai Ngasa Samburu Camus

Western

Dinka–Nuer

Luo

Northern	Anuak Belanda Bor Jur Päri Shilluk Thuri
Southern	Southern Luo Acholi Adhola Alur Dholuo Kumam Lango (Uganda)

Burun

Southern

Kalenjin

Elgon	Kupsabiny Sabaot
Nandi–Markweta	Keiyo Kipsigis Markwet Naandi Terik Tugen
Okiek–Mosiro	Ogiek
Pökoot	Pökoot

Omotik–Datooga

Italics indicate extinct languages

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