ISO 639-3 · luoluo
Nilo-Saharan family
Dholuo
Dholuo is a language of the Western Nilotic branch (Nilo-Saharan), spoken in Kenya and Tanzania. Wikidata counts about 3 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “dialect of the Luo spoken in Kenya and Tanzania”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
luo- Glottocode
luok1236- Family
- Nilo-Saharan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Wikipedia
- 35 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Dholuo |
|---|---|
| Also called | Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luo |
| All speakers | 3,000,000 |
| Written in | Arabic script, 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 Dholuo
The branches above Dholuo, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Kenya
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafepanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafeswhKiswahiliNiger–Congo · 98.3 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialormOromoAfroasiatic · 36 msomSomaliAfroasiatic · 16.2 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mkikGikuyuNiger–Congo · 6.6 m5 · DevelopingayhHadhrami ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.5 m6a · Vigorous