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Luo, also called Dholuo, is the ancestral language and primary mother tongue of the Luo people of the Lake Victoria region of Kenya and Tanzania. This video features Moses and was recorded by Avi Kumar on Mfangano Island, Kenya.
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From Wikipedia: Luo, also called Dholuo (pronounced [d̪ólúô]) and Nilotic Kavirondo, is spoken by about 4.2 million people of Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa, who occupy parts of the eastern shore of Lake Victoria and areas to the south. It is used for broadcasts on KBC (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, formerly the Voice of Kenya). Dholuo is mutually intelligible with Alur, Lango, Acholi, and Adhola of Uganda. Dholuo and the aforementioned Uganda languages are all linguistically related to Jur chol of South Sudan and Anuak of Ethiopia due to the common ethnic origins of the larger Luo peoples who speak Luo languages. It is estimated that Dholuo has 90% lexical similarity with Lep Alur (Alur), 83% with Lep Achol (Acholi), 81% with Lango, and 93% with Dhopadhola (Adhola). However, these are often counted as separate languages despite common ethnic origins due to linguistic shift occasioned by geographical movement.
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Luo, also called Dholuo, is the ancestral language and primary mother tongue of the Luo people of the Lake Victoria region of Kenya and Tanzania. This video features Moses and was recorded by Avi Kumar on Mfangano Island, Kenya.
Listen to more: wikitongues.org/languages/luo
Submit your own video here: wikitongues.org/submit--a-video
From Wikipedia: Luo, also called Dholuo (pronounced [d̪ólúô]) and Nilotic Kavirondo, is spoken by about 4.2 million people of Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa, who occupy parts of the eastern shore of Lake Victoria and areas to the south. It is used for broadcasts on KBC (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, formerly the Voice of Kenya). Dholuo is mutually intelligible with Alur, Lango, Acholi, and Adhola of Uganda. Dholuo and the aforementioned Uganda languages are all linguistically related to Jur chol of South Sudan and Anuak of Ethiopia due to the common ethnic origins of the larger Luo peoples who speak Luo languages. It is estimated that Dholuo has 90% lexical similarity with Lep Alur (Alur), 83% with Lep Achol (Acholi), 81% with Lango, and 93% with Dhopadhola (Adhola). However, these are often counted as separate languages despite common ethnic origins due to linguistic shift occasioned by geographical movement.
This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. To download a copy, please contact hello@wikitongues.org.
