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 | |
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Region | Uganda and adjoining areas |
Native speakers | 8.8 million (2001–2009)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | luo |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:adh – Adholakdi – Kumamluo – Dholuo (Kavirondo Luo)alz – Alurlaj – Langoach – Acholi |
Glottolog | sout2831 [2] |
Proto-Southern Luo has been reconstructed by Blount & Curley (1970).[3]
Varieties
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References
- Adhola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Kumam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dholuo (Kavirondo Luo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Alur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lango at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Acholi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Southern Lwoo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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