Lango language (Sudan)

Lango language (Sudan)

language
name=Lango
states=Sudan
speakers=20,000 (1987)
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Eastern Nilotic
fam4=Lotuxo
iso3=lno

Lango (or Langgo) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken by the Lango people, who live in the south of Sudan, in Equatoria Province, Torit District. It had approximately 20,000 speakers in 1987. It is described as part of a Lotuxo subfamily of a Lotuxo-Teso branch of Eastern Nilotic by Ethnologue.

"Lango" may also refer to a different, Western Nilotic language in Uganda, and to another Eastern Nilotic variety spoken in Sudan, Didinga.

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lno Ethnologue]


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