OLAC resources in and about the Luo language

ISO 639-3: luo

The combined catalog of all OLAC participants contains the following resources that are relevant to this language:

• Primary texts
• Lexical resources
• Language descriptions
• Other resources about the language
• Other resources in the language

Other known names and dialect names: Dholuo, Kavirondo, Kavirondo Luo, Kidjaluo, Nilotic Kavirondo

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Primary texts

1. ONLINEThe Bible in Luo. n.a. n.d. United Bible Societies. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_luo_gen-1
2. ONLINEThe Bible in Luo. n.a. n.d. The Bible Society of Kenya. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_luo_gen-2
3. ONLINELuo text. Anderson, Lowrie (researcher); Breidenthal, Henry (researcher); Klinke, Ludwig (researcher); Smith, Maureen (researcher); Apela, Richard (speaker). 1963. SIL International. oai:sil.org:90088

Lexical resources

1. ONLINECrúbadán language data for Dholuo. Kevin Scannell. 2018. The Crúbadán Project. oai:crubadan.org:luo
2. ONLINEDholuo Swadesh List. n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_luo_swadesh-1
3. ONLINEDholuo Dictionary. Jamieson Capen, Carole (compiler). 2019. SIL International. oai:sil.org:85289
4. ONLINEDholuo Dictionary. n.a. 2019-01-24. SIL Global. oai:webonary.org:78

Language descriptions

1. ONLINEGlottolog 5.3 Resources for Luo (Kenya and Tanzania). n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:luok1236
2. ONLINEPHOIBLE 2.0 phonemic inventories for Luo (Kenya and Tanzania). n.a. 2019. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. oai:phoible.org:luok1236
3. ONLINEThe Major Syntactic Structures of Dholuo. Omondi, L. N. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:2629
4. ONLINELuo: A Grammar. Gregersen, Edgar A. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:289
5. ONLINEA Functional Grammar of Dholuo. Okombo, Duncan Okoth. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:3545
6. ONLINEA grammar of Kenya Luo (Dholuo). Anonymous. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:3861
7. ONLINEA Grammar of Kenya Luo (Dholuo). Tucker, Archibald N. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4044
8. ONLINEAn Elementary Luo Grammar, with vocabularies. Stafford, R. L. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4441
9. ONLINELes langages de l'humanité: une encyclopédie des 3000 langues parlées dans le monde. Malherbe, Michael and Rosenberg, S. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:5653
10. ONLINELinguistic Analyses: the Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. Tucker, A. N. and Bryan, M. A. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:846
11. ONLINEWALS Online Resources for Luo. n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:wals.info:luo

Other resources about the language

1. ONLINEDholuo: a language of Kenya. n.a. 2018. SIL International. oai:ethnologue.com:luo
2. ONLINELINGUIST List Resources for Luo. Damir Cavar, eLinguistics Foundation Board Member (editor); Malgorzata E. Cavar, Director of Linguist List (editor). 2022-05-31. The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org). oai:linguistlist.org:lang_luo
3. Alphabets of Kenya – Country Introduction from Alphabets of Africa. Omondi, Lucia N. 1993. UNESCO and Summer Institute of Linguistics. oai:sil.org:4948

Other resources in the language

1. ONLINEIARPA Babel Dholuo Language Pack IARPA-babel403b-v1.0b. Bills, Aric; Bishop, Judith; Conners, Thomas; Corris, Miriam; David, Anne; Dubinski, Eyal; Fiscus, Jonathan G.; Gann, Ketty; Harper, Mary; Kazi, Michael; Malyska, Nicolas; Melot, Jennifer; Ray, Jessica; Rytting, Anton; Zawaydeh, Bushra. 2020. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2020S02

Other known names and dialect names: Dholuo, Kavirondo, Kavirondo Luo, Kidjaluo, Nilotic Kavirondo

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