Southern Luo languages
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| Southern Luo (Lwo) | |
|---|---|
| Southern Lwoo | |
| Region | South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC |
| Ethnicity | Luo peoples, Ateker peoples |
Native speakers | (8.8 million cited 2001–2009)[1] |
Early form | Proto-Southern Luo[2]
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| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | luo |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:adh – Adholakdi – Kumamluo – Dholuoalz – Alurlaj – Langoach – Acholi |
| Glottolog | sout2831 |
The Southern Luo languages are a subgroup of the Luo languages and form a dialect cluster spoken from Uganda and neighboring countries.
Classification
[edit]The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the Glottolog database as follows:[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ 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; 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 (10 July 2023). "Glottolog 4.8 - Southern Lwoo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.