Mutanen Luo ne ke magana da yarukan Luo, Lwo ko Lwoian da yawa a wani yanki daga kudancin Sudan zuwa yammacin Habasha zuwa kudancin Kenya, tare da Dholuo da ke kaiwa arewacin Tanzania da Alur zuwa Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo. Sun samar da ɗaya daga cikin rassa biyu na iyalin Nilotic na Yamma, ɗayan kuma Dinka-Nuer ne. Kudancin Luo iri-iri suna fahimtar juna, kuma ban da asalin kabilanci ana iya ɗaukar su yare ɗaya.  [ana buƙatar hujja][<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span>]

Yaren Luo
Linguistic classification
Glottolog lwoo1234[1]

Tsawon lokacin rarraba harsunan Luo yana da matsakaici, watakila kusa da shekaru dubu biyu. R[2] a cikin yaren yaren Luo na Kudancin ya fi zurfi, watakila ƙarni biyar zuwa takwas, yana nuna ƙaura saboda tasirin Islama na yankin Sudan.

An rarraba harsunan Luo a cikin bayanan Glottolog kamar haka: [3]

 

A cewar Mechthild Reh, an rarraba yarukan Arewacin Luo kamar haka:

 

Bayanan littattafai

gyara sashe
  • [Hasiya] "Iyalin Lwoian". Takardun Lokaci-lokaci a cikin Nazarin Harsunan Sudan, 9, 165-174.

Manazarta

gyara sashe
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lwoo1234 |chapterurl= missing title (help). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Bethwell Allan Ogot, History of the Southern Luo: Volume 1, Migration and Settlement.
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