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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 (Lwo)
RegionSouth Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC
Native speakers
8.8 million (2001–2009)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Eastern Sudanic
    • Nilotic
      • Western Nilotic
        • Luo
          • Southern Luo (Lwo)
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-2luo
ISO 639-3Variously:
adh – Adhola
kdi – Kumam
luo – Dholuo (Kavirondo Luo)
alz – Alur
ach – Acholi
Glottologsout2831

Proto-Southern Luo has been reconstructed by Blount & Curley (1970).[2]


Varieties



References


  1. Adhola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kumam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Dholuo (Kavirondo Luo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Alur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Acholi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 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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