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Southern Luo is a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries. Although Southern Luo dialects are mutually intelligible, [citation needed] there are six ethnically and culturally distinct varieties which are considered to be separate languages socially. [citation needed] Proto-Southern Luo has been reconstructed by Blount & Curley (1970).
Kuku is a tone language. It has agglutinative verbal morphology, with extensive suppletion. Nouns are divided into two genders. There is a vowel harmony system that primarily involves an ATR distinction. Differences between Kuku and Bari include the phoneme inventory, pronouns, tonal phonology, and tense formation.
Maasai (previously spelled Masai) or Maa ( English: / ˈmɑːsaɪ /; [2] autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million. It is closely related to the other Maa varieties: Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya ...
Nilotic languages are part of the Eastern Sudanic subbranch of Nilo-Saharan languages. The Nilotic languages are usually divided into a Western group (containing such languages as Acholi, Burun, Dinka, Lango, Luo, Mabaan, Nuer, and Shilluk), an Eastern group (including Bari, Karimojong, Lotuxo, Maa [the language of the Maasai people], Teso ...
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Ngakarimojong is a Nilotic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family (Encyclopædia Britannica) spoken by at least 370,000 people in Uganda – the Karamojong people, or ŋiKarimojoŋ in their language. The name approximates to "the old men sat down", dating from a time of migration 300 or more years ago when this group refused to travel ...
Eastern. Mangbutu–Lese. Bendi. Language codes. ISO 639-3. bct. Glottolog. bend1260. Bendi (Mabendi) is a Central Sudanic language of northeastern Congo .
