• languages because their speakers are ethnically distinct. Labwor (Thur), once considered a dialect of Acholi, may not be intelligible with it. Acholi...
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    The Acholi people (/əˈtʃoʊ.li/ ə-CHOH-li, also spelled Acoli) are a Nilotic ethnic group of Luo peoples (also spelled Lwo), found in Magwi County in South...
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  • country. Acholi language, a Nilotic language Acholi Inn, a building in Gulu, Uganda Acholi nationalism, a political ideology of Acholi people This disambiguation...
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    Shea butter (category Articles containing Bambara-language text)
    language of Senegal. It is also known as Moo-yaa in the Acholi language. The common name is shísu ߛ߭ߌ߭ߛߎ (lit. "shea tree") in the Bambara language of...
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  • neighbouring tribes – Bari, Kuku, Pajulu, Acholi, etc. Hardly any of them can now speak their 'ancestral' languages; they speak Ma'di only and have become...
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    Equatoria (section Languages)
    below. The following tribes occupy the three states of Greater Equatoria: Acholi, Avukaya, Baka, Balanda, Bari, Didinga, Kakwa, Keliko, Kuku, Lango, Lokoya...
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    ancestors. The Acholi people (part of the Nilotic group) occupy a region in the western part of Eastern Equatoria and speak the Acholi language. It is estimated...
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  • Acholi nationalism is a political ideology that seeks self-determination by the Acholi people. Acholi Nationalism is a socio-political movement and ideology...
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  • Alur (Dho-Alur [d̟ɔ.a.lur]) is a Western Nilotic language spoken in the southern West Nile region of Uganda and the northeastern Ituri Province of the...
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    rebel group centered around founder Alice Lakwena (Auma). Alice, an ethnic Acholi, was purportedly directed to form the HSM by Lakwena, one of her spirits...
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    Empire of Kitara (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    first Babiito king.: 207–214 : 50–53 : 51–53 : 32 : 111–114  In the Acholi language, the term "Bito" is used "generally of the sons of an aristocratic...
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  • mutually intelligible with Alur, Acholi, Adhola and Lango of Uganda. Dholuo and the aforementioned Uganda languages are all linguistically related to...
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    speak a language which is mutually intelligible with Acholi language, Alur language of Uganda and Dholuo language of Kenya. They call their language Dhopadhola...
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    similarity with Lep Alur (Alur language); 83% with Lep Achol (Acholi language); 93% with Dhopadhola (Padhola language), 74% with Anuak, and 69% with Jurchol...
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    Western Nilotic Luo languages include Alur (population 459,000), Acholi, Lango, Adhola and Kumam. Some Southern Nilotic Kalenjin languages are spoken along...
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  • Jok (spirit) (category Acholi)
    is a term for a class of spirits in the traditional belief system of the Acholi people of Uganda and South Sudan. Jok are believed to be the cause of illness...
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    South Sudan Uganda border, to Nyolo River where the Ma’di mingle with the Acholi, the Bari, and the Lolubo. From the east to west, it runs from Parajok/Magwi...
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    September 2024, the following 243 languages and language varieties are supported by Google Translate. Abkhaz Acehnese Acholi Afar Afrikaans Albanian Alur Amharic...
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  • Fassera had spent a year and a half in Gulu and knew enough of the Acholi language to begin speaking with the man who identified himself as the leader...
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  • have successfully imposed their languages in non-state situations. Anthony gives the example of the Luo-speaking Acholi in northern Uganda in the 17th...
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  • words in common with their neighbors, the Acholi, who lived to the west. He suggests that the Acholi’s language is a purer form of Nyangiya. By 1975, it...
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    Luo peoples (category Articles containing Dholuo-language text)
    Luo languages belong to the western branch of the Nilotic language family. The Luo groups in South Sudan include the Shilluk, Anuak, Pari, Acholi, Balanda...
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  • unified written grammar of Dinka. The language most closely related to Dinka is the Nuer language. The Luo languages are also closely related. The Dinka...
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    language, one of the major languages of Uganda. Dinka (1.4 million). The major ethnicity of South Sudan. Acholi (1.2 million). Another Luo language of...
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  • The Nubian languages are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. In the past, Nubian languages were spoken throughout much of Sudan, but as...
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    The Nilotic languages are a group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples. The word Nilotic...
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  • communities as at 1 February 1926) which enumerates 65 indigenous communities. Acholi Aliba Alur Aringa Baamba Babukusu Babwisi Bafumbira Baganda Bagisu Bagungu...
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  • The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi, Arabic: كي-نوبي, romanized: kī-nūbī) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo,...
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    Southern Luo language or dialect cluster of the Western Nilotic language branch. The word "Lango" is used to describe both the language spoken by the...
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  • was quickly translated into other languages.[citation needed] The complete poem in the original Acholi Luo language was published later in 1969. Taban...
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