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They form one of the two branches of the <a href="/wiki/Western_Nilotic_languages" title="Western Nilotic languages">Western Nilotic</a> family, the other being the <a href="/wiki/Dinka_language" title="Dinka language">Dinka</a>–<a href="/wiki/Nuer_language" title="Nuer language">Nuer</a>. The Southern Luo varieties are <a href="/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility" title="Mutual intelligibility">mutually intelligible</a>, and apart from ethnic identity they might be considered a single language.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The time depth of the division of the Luo languages is moderate, perhaps close to two millennia. The division within the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Luo_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Luo language">Southern Luo language</a> dialect cluster is considerably shallower, perhaps five to eight centuries, reflecting migrations due to the impact of the <a href="/wiki/Islamization_of_the_Sudan_region" title="Islamization of the Sudan region">Islamization of the Sudan region</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Luo languages are classified within the <a href="/wiki/Glottolog" title="Glottolog">Glottolog</a> database as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><b>Lwoo</b> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_Luo_languages&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northern Luo languages (page does not exist)">Northern Lwoo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anuak_language" title="Anuak language">Anuak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belanda_Bor_language" title="Belanda Bor language">Belanda Bor</a></li> <li>Luwo–Thuri <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jur_language" title="Jur language">Luwo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thuri_language" title="Thuri language">Thuri</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A4ri_language" title="Päri language">Päri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shilluk_language" title="Shilluk language">Shilluk</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Luo_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Luo language">Southern Lwoo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acholi_dialect" title="Acholi dialect">Acoli</a></li> <li>Adhola–Alur–Luo <ul><li>Adhola–Luo <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adhola_dialect" title="Adhola dialect">Adhola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dholuo" title="Dholuo">Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alur_language" title="Alur language">Alur</a></li></ul></li> <li>Lango–Kumam <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kumam_dialect" title="Kumam dialect">Kumam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lango_language_(Uganda)" title="Lango language (Uganda)">Lango (Uganda)</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <p>According to Mechthild Reh, the Northern Luo languages are classified as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1116488514"><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><b>Northern</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shilluk_language" title="Shilluk language">Shilluk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belanda_Bor_language" title="Belanda Bor language">Belanda Bor</a></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="emptyline"> <ul><li>Bodho</li> <li>Col</li> <li>Manangeer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thuri_language" title="Thuri language">Thuri</a></li></ul></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="emptyline"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jur_language" title="Jur language">Jur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anuak_language" title="Anuak language">Anuak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%A4ri_language" title="Päri language">Päri</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luo_languages&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gilley, Leoma G. 2004. "The Lwoian family." <i>Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages</i>, 9, 165–174.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luo_languages&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bethwell_Allan_Ogot" title="Bethwell Allan Ogot">Bethwell Allan Ogot</a>, <i>History of the Southern Luo: Volume 1, Migration and Settlement</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHammarströmForkelHaspelmathBank2024" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Harald_Hammarstr%C3%B6m" title="Harald Hammarström">Hammarström, Harald</a>; Forkel, Robert; <a href="/wiki/Martin_Haspelmath" title="Martin Haspelmath">Haspelmath, Martin</a>; Bank, Sebastian (2024-03-11). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lwoo1234">"Glottolog 5.0 - Lwoo"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Glottolog" title="Glottolog">Glottolog</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a>: <a href="/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Evolutionary_Anthropology" title="Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology">Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5281%2Fzenodo.7398962">10.5281/zenodo.7398962</a></span>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240506212710/glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lwoo1234">Archived</a> from the original on 2024-05-06<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Nilotic_languages" title="Eastern Nilotic languages">Eastern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bari</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bari_language" title="Bari language">Bari</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kuku_dialect" title="Kuku dialect">Kuku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandari_dialect" title="Mandari dialect">Mandari</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Teso%E2%80%93Turkana_languages" title="Teso–Turkana languages">Teso–Turkana</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karamojong_language" title="Karamojong language">Karamojong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teso_language" title="Teso language">Teso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toposa_language" title="Toposa language">Toposa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkana_language" title="Turkana language">Turkana</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nyangatom_language" title="Nyangatom language">Nyangatom</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lotuko</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dongotono_language" title="Dongotono language">Dongotono</a></li> <li><a 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