Laro

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Laro (Laru)

Spoken in

Nuba Mountains , Sudan
speaker 40,000 (in 1998)
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

lro

Laro , also Laru, Aaleira, Ngwullaro and Yillaro , is a Cordofan language from the group of Heiban languages , which is spoken in Kurdufan in Sudan .

It belongs to the language family of the Niger-Congo languages and its speakers are increasingly adopting the official language Arabic as their mother tongue.