Editing Luo languages (section)

{{short description|Nilo-Saharan language spoken in East Africa}}
{{distinguish|Dholuo{{!}}Luo dialect|Jur language{{!}}Luwo language}}
{{for multi|the language of Kenya and Tanzania known as Luo|Dholuo|the unclassified language of Atta in Cameroon|Luo language (Cameroon)}}
{{Infobox language family
|name          = Luo
|altname       = Lwo, Lwoo, Luwoian
|ethnicity     = [[Luo peoples]]
|region        = southwestern [[Ethiopia]], [[South Sudan]], [[Sudan]], northeastern [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo (DRC)]], northern [[Uganda]], southwestern [[Kenya]], northern [[Tanzania]]
|familycolor   = Nilo-Saharan
|fam2          = [[Eastern Sudanic languages|Eastern Sudanic]]
|fam3          = [[Southern Eastern Sudanic languages|Southern Eastern]]
|fam4          = [[Nilotic languages|Nilotic]]
|fam5          = [[Western Nilotic languages|Western Nilotic]]
|child1        = [[Northern Luo languages|Northern Luo]]
|child2        = [[Southern Luo language|Southern Luo]]
|glotto        = lwoo1234
|glottorefname = Lwoo
}}
The dozen '''Luo''', '''Lwo''' or '''Lwoian''' languages are spoken by the [[Luo peoples]] in an area ranging from southern [[Sudan]] to western Ethiopia to southern [[Kenya]], with [[Dholuo]] extending into northern [[Tanzania]] and [[Alur language|Alur]] into the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. They form one of the two branches of the [[Western Nilotic languages|Western Nilotic]] family, the other being the [[Dinka language|Dinka]]–[[Nuer language|Nuer]]. The Southern Luo varieties are [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]], and apart from ethnic identity they might be considered a single language.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}