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]
Early form
Proto-Southern Luo [2]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-2 luo
ISO 639-3 Variously:
adh  – Adhola
kdi  – Kumam
luo  – Dholuo
alz  – Alur
laj  – Lango
ach  – Acholi
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The Southern Luo languages are a subgroup of the Luo languages and form a dialect cluster spoken from Uganda and neighboring countries.

Classification

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

References

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. ↑ Blount, Ben and Curley, Richard T. 1970. The Southern Luo Languages: A Glottochronological Reconstruction. Journal of African Languages 9: 1-18.
  3. ↑ 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.

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