Southern Luo languages

Southern Luo (Lwo)
Southern Luo (Lwo)
Southern Lwoo
Region	South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC
Ethnicity	Luo peoples
Native speakers	(8.8 million cited 2001–2009)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Southern Eastern? Nilotic Western Luo Southern Luo (Lwo); ; ; ; ; ;
Early form	Proto-Southern Luo
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
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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]

^ 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)
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