Two Shilluk men, photographed 1936 near Malakal, South Sudan
Total population
500,000-700,000[citation needed]
Languages
Shilluk, English
Religion
Christianity African traditional religion
Related ethnic groups
Other Luo peoples, other Nilotic peoples
The Shilluk (Shilluk: Chollo) is a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group that resides in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the Nile River in Malakal. Before the Second Sudanese Civil War, the Shilluk also lived in settlements on the northern bank of the Sobat River, close to where the Sobat joins the Nile.
The Shilluk are the third-largest ethnic group of southern Sudan, after the Dinka and Nuer.
Their language is called Dhøg Cøllø, dhøg being the Shilluk word for language and mouth. It belongs to the Luo branch of the Western Nilotic subfamily of the Nilotic languages.
The Shilluk (Shilluk: Chollo) is a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group that resides in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the...
The Shilluk Kingdom, dominated by the Shillukpeople, was located along the left bank of the White Nile in what is now South Sudan and southern Sudan....
Shilluk (natively Dhøg Cøllø, [d̪ɔ́(ɡ) cɔ̀llɔ̀]) is a language spoken by the Shillukpeople of South Sudan. It is closely related to other Luo languages...
Shilluk may refer to: the Shilluk Kingdom the Shillukpeople the Shilluk language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shilluk...
the Nilotic language family. The Luo groups in South Sudan include the Shilluk, Anuak, Pari, Acholi, Balanda Boor, Thuri and Luwo. Those in Uganda include...
(and other Nilotic people), the Shillukpeople, and Murle people, as well as Moslem Arab tribes. Historically, the Shillukpeople (part of the Nilotic...
the Shilluk. Nilotic people in Uganda includes the Luo peoples (Acholi, Alur, Adhola), the Ateker peoples (Iteso, Kumam, Karamojong, Lango people who...
composed of ethnic minorities such as the Murle people who lead the Cobra faction and the Shillukpeople who lead the Upper Nile Faction. In a strategy...
the Nilotic groups to become almost entirely Christian, following the Shillukpeople. According to American non-profit organization Cultural Survival, the...
relationship with neighboring ethnic groups, including Dinka people and Shillukpeople, and colonial powers, often marked by conflict and competition...
subject peoples. James Bruce, in his book Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, theorized that the Funj descend from the Shillukpeople. Bruce wrote...
the Shilluk Kingdom, in the 16th century. He is a notion by which the Shillukpeople apprehend a unity and coherence in the specifically Shilluk world...
disarmament campaign which saw widespread abuses against the Shillukpeople, John Uliny of the Shillukpeople began a rebellion, leading the Upper Nile faction of...
ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shillukpeople of the Sudan. He was a professor at London School of Economics...
by the time Turks invaded the region. In the nineteenth century, the Shillukpeople had established a centralized monarchy which allowed them to conserve...
could unload. The surrounding area, although swampy, was populated by Shillukpeople, and by the mid-1870s, Fashoda was a bustling market and administrative...
Gule is a tribe of the Shillukpeople in Sudan in between the Blue and White Nile. The primary language is Sudanese Arabic after their native language...
member of the Shilluk ethnic group. He has at various points in time been allied with the South Sudan Democratic Movement, the Sudan People's Liberation...
Kong Chuol is from the Eastern Jikany Nuer and Lam Akol is from the Shillukpeople. The breakaway faction, based in Nasir until 1995 and then in Waat and...
the reigning Reth (also known as King) of the Shilluk Kingdom, He is the 35th King of Shilluk. Shilluk Kingdom was located along the left and right bank...
mid-17th century, Sennar repulsed the northward advance of the Nilotic Shillukpeople up the White Nile and compelled many of them to submit to Funj authority...
local authorities estimate 4000 people died. The town was once part of the Shilluk Kingdom, belonging to the Shillukpeople. Africa portal Railway stations...
Wau Shilluk is a village of 50,000 located in the Upper Nile state of South Sudan. Many who reside in Wau Shilluk are IDPs in need of refuge due to the...
Nile in Egypt. It is theorized that it was pressure from the Shilluk that drove the Funj people north where they would establish the Funj Sultanate. The Dinka...
similarity with Alur, Padhola language, and other Luo languages in South Sudan Shilluk, Anuak,Pari, Balanda, Boor, Thuri. Then in Kenya and Tanzania are the Joluo...
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