# Southern Luo languages

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{{Short description|Luo (also spelt LWO) dialect cluster spoken in Central Africa}}
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{{Infobox language
|name        = Southern Luo (Lwo)
|altname     = Southern Lwoo
|nativename  = 
|region      =[South Sudan](/source/South_Sudan), [Uganda](/source/Uganda), [Kenya](/source/Kenya), [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania) and the [DRC](/source/DRC)
|ethnicity   = [Luo peoples](/source/Luo_peoples), [Ateker peoples](/source/Ateker_peoples)
|speakers    = {{sigfig|8.772000|2}} million 
|date        = 2001–2009
|ref=e18
|familycolor = Nilo-Saharan
|fam2        = [Eastern Sudanic](/source/Eastern_Sudanic_languages)?
|fam3        = [Southern Eastern](/source/Southern_Eastern_Sudanic_languages)?
|fam4        = [Nilotic](/source/Nilotic_languages)
|fam5        = [Western](/source/Western_Nilotic_languages)
|fam6        = [Luo](/source/Luo_languages)
|dia1        = [Acholi](/source/Acholi_dialect)
|dia2        = [Adhola](/source/Adhola_dialect)–[Alur](/source/Alur_language)–[Luo](/source/Dholuo)
|dia3        = [Kumam](/source/Kumam_dialect)–[Lango](/source/Lango_language_(Uganda))
|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](/source/dialect_cluster) spoken from [Uganda](/source/Uganda) and neighboring countries.

==Classification==
The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the [Glottolog](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Evolutionary_Anthropology) |author-link1=Harald Hammarström |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |publication-place=[Leipzig](/source/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](/source/Acholi_dialect)
** Adhola–Alur–Luo
*** Adhola–Luo
**** [Adhola](/source/Adhola_dialect)
**** [Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)](/source/Dholuo)
*** [Alur](/source/Alur_language)
** Lango–Kumam
*** [Kumam](/source/Kumam_dialect)
*** [Lango (Uganda)](/source/Lango_language_(Uganda))
{{Tree list/end}}

== References == 
<references />

{{Languages of Uganda}}
{{Eastern Sudanic languages}}
Category:Luo languages
Category:Languages of Uganda

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