Southern Luo languages

Southern Luo (Lwo)
Southern Luo (Lwo)
Southern Lwoo
Region	South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC
Ethnicity	Luo peoples
Native speakers	(8.8 million cited 2001–2009)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Southern Eastern? Nilotic Western Luo Southern Luo (Lwo); ; ; ; ; ;
Early form	Proto-Southern Luo
Dialects	Acholi; Adhola–Alur–Luo; Kumam–Lango these are Ateker peoples, they are not ethnically related to Luo peoples.;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	luo
ISO 639-3	Variously:; adh – Adhola; kdi – Kumam is not a Lwo language by origin.; luo – Dholuo; alz – Alur; laj – Lango is not a Lwo language by origin.; ach – Acholi
Glottolog	sout2831

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