Eastern Sudanic family
Dholuo
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Dholuo (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Eastern Sudanic language. Lineage: Proto-Eastern Sudanic → Proto-Nilotic → Proto-Western Nilotic → Dholuo.
See Dholuo on the interactive map- Speakers
- 4M (4,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- luo
- Glottocode
- luok1236
Luo language of western Kenya and northern Tanzania, brought by Luo migrations from the Nile valley around the 15th–16th centuries.
Lineage
- Proto-Eastern Sudanicc. 6,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE
- Proto-Niloticc. 3,000 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Proto-Western Niloticc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
- Dholuoc. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 2
Also descended from Proto-Western Nilotic.