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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Southern Luo Languages (redirect from Southern Luo dialects)
(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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Lango language (Uganda) (redirect from Lango dialect)
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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Maasai language (redirect from Arusa dialect)
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 language (section Dialects)
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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Karamojong language (redirect from Jie dialect)
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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Ogiek language (section Dialects)
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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Nuer language (section Dialects)
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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Teso language (redirect from Lokathan dialect)
Northern Anuak Belanda Bor Jur Päri Shilluk Thuri Southern Southern Luo Acholi Adhola Alur Dholuo Kumam Lango (Uganda)...
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Bari language (section Dialects)
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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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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Mararit language (section Dialects)
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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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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