• Kumam is a language of the Southern Lwoo group spoken by the Kumam people of Uganda. It is estimated that the Kumam dialect has 82 percent lexical similarity...
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  • Kumam may refer to: Kumam people, a Nilotic ethnic group of Uganda Kumam dialect, the variety of Southern Luo spoken by those people This disambiguation...
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    The Kumam people are part of a Hamites ethnic group of about 720,000 census 2024, living mainly Kumam Sub-Region of Kaberamaido, Soroti, Soroti City,...
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  • Luo languages (redirect from Luo dialects)
    Adhola–Alur–Luo Adhola–Luo Adhola Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) Alur Lango–Kumam Kumam Lango (Uganda) According to Mechthild Reh, the Northern Luo languages...
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  • (Kenya and Tanzania) Alur Lango–Kumam Kumam Lango (Uganda) Adhola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Kumam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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  • (/əˈtʃoʊ.li/ ə-CHOH-li, also Leb Acoli, or Leb Lwo) is a Southern Luo dialect spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Amuru, Lamwo...
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    positions. In slow speech, it may also be heard as a murmured fricative [ɦ]. Kumam has ten vowels, forming an asymmetric vowel harmony system based on advanced...
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  • Kendari, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia kdi, the ISO 639-3 code for Kumam dialect, Uganda This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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  • Badama) of Uganda. Dhopadhola is generally mutually intelligible with Acholi, Kumam, Lango and Alur of Uganda and Dholuo of Kenya. The prefix dho means "language...
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    including Turkana in present-day Kenya, Iteso, Dodoth, Jie, Karamojong, and Kumam in present-day Uganda, also Jiye and Toposa in southern Sudan all of them...
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  • Dholuo (redirect from Luo dialect)
    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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    Chamus, spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo (sometimes regarded as a dialect of Samburu); and Parakuyu of Tanzania. The Maasai, Samburu, il-Chamus and...
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  • Alur language (redirect from Alur dialect)
    Northern Anuak Belanda Bor Jur Päri Shilluk Thuri Southern Southern Luo Acholi Adhola Alur Dholuo Kumam Lango (Uganda)...
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    languages include Alur (population 459,000), Acholi, Lango, Adhola and Kumam. Some Southern Nilotic Kalenjin languages are spoken along the border with...
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  • Kony 2012 Kotido Kotido Airport Kotido District Kuku dialect Kulambiro Kuluva Hospital Kumam dialect Kumi District Kumi Town Kumi University Kween District...
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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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  • Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ, Thoŋ ë Jieng or simply Jieng) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, a major ethnic group of South Sudan....
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  • technical words come from these latter also. Closely related languages and dialects are spoken by many more peoples, including the Jie, Dodoth, Teso (in Uganda)...
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  • [when?] The Samburu dialect is closely related to the Camus dialect (88% to 94% lexical similarity) and to the South Maasai dialects (77% to 89% lexical...
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    Kenyan place Kinare on the eastern slope of the Rift Valley. The Kinare dialect is extinct, and Rottland (1982:24-25) reports that he found a few old men...
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    Tarantino, Odwe, Crazollara, Uzoigwe). The name “Lango” is found in Teso, Kumam, Karamojong, Jie, and Labwor vocabularies, reflecting that how these groups...
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  • There are several dialects of Nuer, although all share one written standard. For example, final /k/, is pronounced in the Jikany dialect but is dropped in...
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  • The Hill Nubian languages, also called Kordofan Nubian, are a dialect continuum of Nubian languages spoken by the Hill Nubians in the northern Nuba Mountains...
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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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  • themselves, the Pojulu, Kakwa, Nyangwara, Mundari, and Kuku. Each has its own dialect. The language is therefore sometimes called Karo or Kutuk ('mother tongue')...
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  • There are two dialects, Ibiri and Abou Charib, which Blench (2006) counts as distinct languages. The majority speak the Abou Charib dialect. Mararit is...
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  • people of the broader Kalenjin group in Kenya. As a part of the Kalenjin dialect cluster, it is most closely related to such varieties as Kipsigis and Nandi...
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  • branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Miisiirii is often considered a dialect, though it is not particularly close. Tama is spoken by 63,000 people in...
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  • closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually intelligible) spoken in parts of Kenya and...
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  • 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2024-05-06. van Otterloo, Roger. 1979. A Kalenjin dialect study. (Language Data Africa Series, 18.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics...
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