{{Short description|Luo (also spelt LWO) dialect cluster spoken in Central Africa}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox language |name = Southern Luo (Lwo) |altname = Southern Lwoo |nativename = |region =South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC |ethnicity = Luo peoples, Ateker peoples |speakers = {{sigfig|8.772000|2}} million |date = 2001–2009 |ref=e18 |familycolor = Nilo-Saharan |fam2 = Eastern Sudanic? |fam3 = Southern Eastern? |fam4 = Nilotic |fam5 = Western |fam6 = Luo |dia1 = Acholi |dia2 = Adhola–Alur–Luo |dia3 = Kumam–Lango |iso2 = luo |lc1=adh |ld1 = Adhola |lc2=kdi |ld2 = Kumam |lc3=luo |ld3 = Dholuo |lc4=alz |ld4 = Alur |lc6=ach |ld6 = Acholi |lc5=laj |ld5 = Lango |glotto = sout2831 |glottorefname=Southern Lwoo |protoname='''Proto-Southern Luo'''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blount |first1=Ben |last2=Curley |first2=Richard T. |year=1970 |title=The Southern Luo Languages: A Glottochronological Reconstruction |journal=Journal of African Languages |volume=9 |pages=1–18}}</ref> }}
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:<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sout2831 |title=Glottolog 4.8 - Southern Lwoo |date=10 July 2023 |access-date=20 November 2023 |website=Glottolog |last1=Hammarström |first1=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121024259/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sout2831 |archive-date=21 November 2023 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |author-link1=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=Leipzig |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7398962 |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Haspelmath |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian |doi-access=free}}</ref>
{{Tree list}} * Southern Lwoo ** Acholi ** Adhola–Alur–Luo *** Adhola–Luo **** Adhola **** Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) *** Alur ** Lango–Kumam *** Kumam *** Lango (Uganda) {{Tree list/end}}
== References == <references />
{{Languages of Uganda}} {{Eastern Sudanic languages}} Category:Luo languages Category:Languages of Uganda
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