Alur language

Alur language

language
name=Alur
nativename=Lur
region=Orientale Province (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Uganda
speakers=1.2 million
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Nilotic
fam4=Western
fam5=Luo
fam6=Southern Luo
fam7=Luo-Acholi
fam8=Alur-Acholi
iso2=ssa|iso3=alz

Alur is spoken in northwestern Uganda and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo by the Alur people.

External links

* [http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-alur.html Examples of Alur] .


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