Acholi (language)

Acholi
Spoken in	Uganda , Sudan
speaker	approx. 792,000
Linguistic ; classification	Nilo-Saharan languages Nilotic languages West Nilotic languages Luo languages Acholi ;
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639 -2	Oh

Acholi is one of the Luo languages that belong to the West Nilotic languages , which in turn are part of the Nilo-Saharan language family . It is spoken by about 792,000 people, mainly in Uganda (in Acholiland ) and in Magwi County in South Sudan .

Partly on Acholi wrote z. B. the Ugandan poet Okot p'Bitek (see also Lawinos song ).

Spoken Acholi (Wikitongues Project)

literature

JP Crazzolara: A study of the Acooli language: grammar and vocabulary . Oxford University Press, London 1938.
Arthur Leonard Kitching: An outline grammar of the Acholi language . Sheldon Press, London a. The Uganda Bookshop, Kampala 1932 (first published 1907).
Alfred Malandra: A New Acholi Grammar . Eagle Press, Kampala 1955, OCLC 896409881 (English, 159 pages).
Festo Okidi: Acholi for beginners: grammar, Acholi-English, English-Acholi . Pilato Books, London 2000.
GAR Savage: A Short Acoli-English and English-Acoli Vocabulary . Eagle Press, Kampala 1955, OCLC 317345408 (55 pp.).