Dholuo

Details

Instance of

language, modern language

Subclass of

Western Nilotic, Nilotic

Country

Kenya, Tanzania

different from

Luo, Luba-Kasai

Ethnologue language status

5 Developing

indigenous to

Busia County, Homa Bay County, Kakamega County, Kisii County, Kisumu County, Migori County, Nyamira county, Siaya County, Mara Region

linguistic typology

subject–verb–object, fusional language

number of speakers, writers, or signers

3000000

writing system

Arabic alphabet, Latin script

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