Luo (also spelt LWO) dialect cluster spoken in Central Africa
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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]
^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.
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