ISO 639-3 · achach
Nilo-Saharan family
Acholi
Acholi is a language of the Western Nilotic branch (Nilo-Saharan), spoken in Uganda and South Sudan. Wikidata counts about 1.2 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Southern Luo dialect”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ach- Glottocode
acol1236- Family
- Nilo-Saharan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Centre point
- 3.58, 32.52
- Wikipedia
- 31 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Acholi |
|---|---|
| Also called | Acoli, Acooli, Shuli, Gang, Atscholi |
| All speakers | 1,200,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Nilo-Saharan to Acholi
The branches above Acholi, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Uganda
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalswhKiswahiliNiger–Congo · 98.3 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mkinKinyarwandaNiger–Congo · 9.8 m1 · NationalrunKirundiNiger–Congo · 8.8 m1 · NationallugLugandaNiger–Congo · 5.1 m3 · Wider CommunicationcggKigaNiger–Congo · 2.4 m4 · EducationalnynRunyankoleNiger–Congo · 2.3 m4 · EducationallajLangoNilo-Saharan · 2.1 m5 · DevelopingkooKonjoNiger–Congo · 609,0005 · Developing