Native to South Sudan Ethnicity Luwo people | Region Bahr el Ghazal ISO 639-3 lwo | |
Native speakers (80,000 cited 1983 census) Language family Nilo-Saharan?
Eastern Sudanic
Nilotic
Western Nilotic
Luo
Northern
Jur languages
Jur | ||
Jur, also known as Luwo (Luo, Dheluwo), is a language spoken by the Luwo people of Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. The language is predominantly spoken in the western and northern parts of Bahr el Ghazal.
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The language is part of the Luo languages of East Africa and is especially related to the Jur languages of South Sudan such as Anyuak and Päri with whom it forms a dialect cluster.
Etymology
The Jur language is spoken by the Luwo (or Jur Col), an ethnic group in South Sudan. Jur is exonym adopted from the local Dinka language whose speakers are the Luwo's northern and eastern neighbours. Its original Dinka usage, non-cattle-holding non-Dinka, was not particular to the Jur. Jur Col ("black Jur") is today used to disambiguate Luwo from other Jur groups.
Status
Jur is currently a developing language. Meaning that the language is developing its written language, standard dialect and undoing modernization.