Dholuo

dialect of the Luo spoken in Kenya and Tanzania
Language language Q5414796
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Dholuo

Summary

Dholuo is a language[1]. Dholuo ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (84 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dholuo is in the country of Kenya[3].
  • Dholuo is in the country of Tanzania[4].
  • Dholuo's instance of is recorded as language[5].
  • Dholuo's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Dholuo's ISO 639-2 code is recorded as luo[7].
  • Dholuo's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as luo[8].
  • Dholuo's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85078929[9].
  • Dholuo's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11959194h[10].
  • Dholuo's GOST 7.75–97 code is recorded as луо 408[11].
  • Dholuo's subclass of is recorded as Western Nilotic[12].
  • Dholuo's subclass of is recorded as Nilotic[13].
  • Dholuo's writing system is recorded as Arabic alphabet[14].
  • Dholuo's writing system is recorded as Latin script[15].
  • Dholuo's IETF language tag is recorded as luo[16].
  • Dholuo's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00808189[17].
  • Dholuo's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/056zv6[18].
  • Dholuo's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300443691[19].
  • Dholuo's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+3000000'}[20].
  • Dholuo's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1723348[21].
  • Dholuo's Glottolog code is recorded as luok1236[22].
  • Dholuo's Linguasphere code is recorded as 04-ACC-ab[23].
  • Dholuo's WALS lect code is recorded as luo[24].
  • Dholuo's Ethnologue.com language code is recorded as luo[25].
  • Dholuo's different from is recorded as Luo[26].
  • Dholuo's different from is recorded as Luba-Kasai[27].

Why It Matters

Dholuo ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (84 views/month).[2] Dholuo has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Dholuo is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . World Atlas of Language Structures. Retrieved . wals.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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