Southern Luo Languages

The Southern Luo languages are a subgroup of the Luo languages and form a dialect cluster spoken from Uganda and neighboring countries.

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)
Early form	Proto-Southern Luo[2]
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

Classification

The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the Glottolog database as follows:^[3]

• Southern Lwoo
  • Acholi
  • Adhola–Alur–Luo
    • Adhola–Luo
      • Adhola
      • Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
    • Alur
  • Lango–Kumam
    • Kumam
    • Lango (Uganda)