Luo (language)

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Luo

Spoken in

Kenya and Tanzania
speaker 4 million
Linguistic
classification
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Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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Luo (own name: Dholuo [d̪ólúô]) is the language of the Luo people on Lake Victoria in Kenya and Tanzania , to which about 4 million people belong.

The East African writer Grace Ogot wrote novels and short stories in her native Luo as well as in English.

Idioms

  • Misawa! - Hello!
  • Amosi? - Hello there!
  • Idhi nade? - How are you?
  • nade? - How are you?
  • Adhi maber. - I'm good.
  • Ber ahinya. - Fine, fine.
  • Erokamano - Thank you!
  • Erokamano ahinya! - Many thanks!
  • Aheri! - I love you!
  • Bi kaa! - Come here!
  • Oriti! - Goodbye!
  • Wanere! - see you!
  • wanere kiny - see you tomorrow!

Proverbs

  • Omena end right. - literally: "A sardine is small, but still a fish." - corresponds to: "At a small well you also quench your thirst."
  • Kuot ogwal, ok mon dhiang 'modho pi. - literally: "The frog that puffs up in the water does not stop the cow from drinking."

literature

  • Asenath Bole Odaga: English-Dholuo dictionary . Lake Publishers & Enterprises, Kisumu 1997, 2005.
  • Duncan Okoth Okombo: A functional grammar of Dholuo . Köppe, Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-89645-130-8
  • Lucia Ndong'a Omondi: The major syntactic structures of Dholuo . Reimer, Berlin 1982. ISBN 3-496-00511-4
  • Roy L. Stafford: An elementary Luo grammar with vocabularies . Oxford University Press, Nairobi 1967.
  • Archibald N. Tucker: A grammar of Kenya Luo (Dholuo). 2 vols. Köppe, Cologne 1994. ISBN 3-927620-70-X
  • Capen, Carole Jamieson. 1998. Bilingual Dholuo-English dictionary, Kenya . Tucson (Arizona): self-published. Kurasa ix, 322. ISBN 0-966688-10-4

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