Luo language

E247405

Nilotic language Western Nilotic language language

The Luo language is a major Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Luo people of western Kenya and neighboring regions of East Africa.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Luo languages	12
Luo language canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nilotic language ⓘ Western Nilotic language ⓘ language ⓘ
basicWordOrder	SVO ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Acholi language ⓘ Alur language ⓘ Lango language ⓘ
countryStatus	major regional language in Kenya ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Luo people ⓘ
family	Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ
glottocode	luoo1238 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Dho-Luo ⓘ Kenyan Luo ⓘ
hasApproximateSpeakers	over 4 million ⓘ
hasCaseMarking	limited case marking via adpositions and tone ⓘ
hasDialects	Nyanza region ⓘ surface form: Central Nyanza Luo Kisumu ⓘ surface form: Kisumu Luo Nyanza region ⓘ surface form: South Nyanza Luo
hasGrammarFeature	aspect marking ⓘ subject-verb agreement ⓘ verb extensions ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom	English ⓘ Swahili language ⓘ surface form: Swahili
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative ⓘ
hasNumeralSystem	decimal ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	tone language ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ
hasStandardization	orthography developed in 20th century ⓘ
ISO639-2	luo ⓘ
ISO639-3	luo ⓘ
lexifierFor	Sheng vocabulary influence ⓘ
nativeName	Dholuo ⓘ
primaryRegion	western Kenya ⓘ
region	East Africa ⓘ
spokenIn	Kenya ⓘ South Sudan ⓘ Tanzania ⓘ Uganda ⓘ
subfamily	Nilotic languages ⓘ
subgroup	Luo language self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Luo languages Western Nilotic languages ⓘ
usedFor	education at lower primary level in some areas of Kenya ⓘ local media in western Kenya ⓘ religious activities ⓘ
usedIn	Luo literature ⓘ Luo music lyrics ⓘ local radio broadcasting in Kenya ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nilo-Saharian phylum → includesLanguage → Luo language ⓘ

subject surface form: Nilo-Saharan phylum

Eastern Sudanic languages → hasNotableLanguage → Luo language ⓘ