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
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Literacy (''Of the Luo from South Nyanza)''
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Phonological characteristics
- Grammar
- Pronouns
- Distributives
- Nouns
- Possession
- Sample phrases
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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).
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.