Dholuo

Also known as Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luo

Dholuo () or Nilotic Kavirondo, is a dialect of the Luo group of Nilotic languages, spoken by about 4.2 million Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, who occupy parts of the eastern shore of Nam Lolwe (Lake Victoria) and areas to the south. It is used for broadcasts on Ramogi TV and KBC (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, formerly the Voice of Kenya).

Key facts

Language.name: Luo
Language.nativename: Dholuo
Language.states: Kenya and Tanzania
Language.region: Nyanza province of Kenya and Mara Region of Tanzania
Language.ethnicity: Joluo
Language.speakers: 4.2 million
Language.date: 2009 census
Language.ref: e18
Language.familycolor: Nilo-Saharan
Language.fam2: Eastern Sudanic?
Language.fam3: Southern Eastern?
Language.fam4: Nilotic
Language.fam5: Western Nilotic
Language.fam6: Luo
Language.fam7: Southern Luo
Language.fam8: Adhola-Alur-Luo
Language.fam9: Acoli-Luo
Language.script: Latin scriptLuo script

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 3000000
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LUO
P10369: Q381

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Contents

Literacy (''Of the Luo from South Nyanza)''
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Phonological characteristics
Grammar
Pronouns
Distributives
Nouns
Possession
Sample phrases
References
Bibliography
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Dholuo is mutually intelligible with Acholi, Alur and Adhola of Uganda. Dholuo and the aforementioned Uganda languages are all linguistically related to Dholuo of South Sudan and Anuak of Ethiopia due to common ethnic origins of the larger Luo peoples who speak Luo languages.