• The Dholuo dialect (pronounced [d̪ólúô]) or Nilotic Kavirondo, is a dialect of the Luo group of Nilotic languages, spoken by about 4.2 million Luo people...
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  • and in several West African languages such as Fula. The Nilotic language Dholuo, spoken in Kenya, shows mutation of stem-final consonants, as does English...
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    the Luo language, also known as Dholuo, which belongs to the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilotic language family. Dholuo shares considerable lexical similarity...
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    Luo peoples (category Articles containing Dholuo-language text)
    Joluo (also called Luo in Kenyan English). The Joluo and their language Dholuo are also known as the "Luo proper" by Kenya based observers, even though...
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    languages, including (1m+): Shambala Sukuma Nyamwezi Chagga Ha Bena Gogo Haya Dholuo Makonde Nyaturu Maasai Jita Pare Ethnic groups Over 100 ethnic groups Religion...
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  • linguists such as Maarten Kossmann prefer the term "annex state." The Dholuo language (one of the Luo languages) shows alternations between voiced and...
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  • Gusii 2.7 million Meru 2.0 million Mijikenda/Giriama ca. 1 million Nilotic Dholuo 5.0 million Kalenjin languages 4.6 million (Kipsigis 1.9 million, Nandi...
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  • to love oneself, no matter one's skin tone. In 2020, the Kiswahili and Dholuo translations were made available in East Africa through Kenyan publishing...
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  • ranging from southern Sudan to western Ethiopia to southern Kenya, with Dholuo extending into northern Tanzania and Alur into the Democratic Republic of...
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    first European to reach Lake Victoria (known to locals as Nam Lolwe in Dholuo and Nnalubaale or Ukerewe in Luganda). Speke is also known for propounding...
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  • Donge may refer to: Donge local dialect (Language) Dholuo (tribe in Kenya commonly known as Luo) word for Right Donge (river), river in the Dutch province...
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    Jan, Johan, Johannes, Hanne, Johanne Dagbani Jɔn Dawan Yohanes Yohana Dholuo Johana Dutch Han, Hannes, Hans, Jan, Johan, Johannes, Jannes, Jens, Wannes...
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    Lake Victoria (category Articles containing Dholuo-language text)
    600 sq mi)). Though having multiple local language names (Swahili: Ukerewe; Dholuo: Nam Lolwe; Luganda: 'Nnalubaale; Kinyarwanda: Nyanza), the lake was renamed...
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    Kiswahili. Most people in Kisumu are trilingual and are also fluent in Dholuo, the local language of the Luo, Kenya's fourth-largest ethnic group, to...
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  • Paul Sidandi between 2009 and 2012 to write Luo languages, specifically Dholuo of Kenya, in a unique way. The script is a left-to-right alphabet, with...
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    Breton Cantonese Chechen Cherokee Chhattisgarhi Chittagonian Chuvash Deccani Dholuo (Luo) Dyula Dzongkha Edo Efik Esan Fon Fula (Fulani) BETA Gagauz Garhwali...
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    from SIL's Ethnologue 16 (2009)). In descending order: Luo (Dholuo, 4.4 million). Dholuo language of the Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, Kenya's third...
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    in Kenya, also in Nyanza Province: The predominant language in Nyanza is Dholuo, a Nilotic language and Ekegusii (Bantu Languages) whose origins are from...
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  • Kenya at is located in Royra District. Most of the residents of Shirati are DhoLuo speaking people Nilotes. Suba people, a subbranch of Bantu communities who...
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  • Classiques Garnier, 314-316 p. 169, Toni Borowsky & Peter Avery. 2009. Dhochi: A Dholuo Language Game. Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 169-194...
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    Kimîîru Oluluhyia Kipokomo Kigiryama Kiembu bajuni Nilo-Saharan Nilotic Dholuo Kalenjin Maa Turkana Afroasiatic Cushitic Rendille Somali Semitic Arabic...
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  • United States (North Carolina) Christianity Luo Nilo-Saharan → Nilotic → Dholuo Kenya Christianity Lurs Indo-European → Iranian → Luri Iran (Lorestan, Kohgiluyeh...
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  • Kisumu County. The town is also commonly known by the name "Ladhri", a Dholuo word meaning 'someone who always lacks' or 'someone begging for help/ looking...
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    Central African rock python (category Articles containing Dholuo-language text)
    The Central African rock python (Python sebae) is a species of large constrictor snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is native to sub-Saharan Africa...
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    means "the stone of the first woman", or "stone of the first wife", in Dholuo, the Luo language. Kit-Mikayi, found in East Seme ward, Kisumu County, is...
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    Kimîîru Oluluhyia Kipokomo Kigiryama Kiembu bajuni Nilo-Saharan Nilotic Dholuo Kalenjin Maa Turkana Afroasiatic Cushitic Rendille Somali Semitic Arabic...
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  • 2019 Kenyan proposal; means a very strong whirling column of wind in the Dholuo language. // Corona Borealis HD 145457 Kamuy IAU new 2019 Japanese proposal;...
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    Development Centre. 2014. p. 286. Okoth Okombo, Duncan (1997). A Functional Grammar of Dholuo. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89645-130-9. v t e...
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  • required) Kumam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Dholuo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Alur at Ethnologue...
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  • Northern Anuak Belanda Bor Jur Päri Shilluk Thuri Southern Southern Luo Acholi Adhola Alur Dholuo Kumam Lango (Uganda)...
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