Jur language
| Jur | |
|---|---|
| Luwo | |
| Native to | South Sudan |
| Region | Bahr el Ghazal |
| Ethnicity | Luwo people |
Native speakers | (80,000 cited 1983 census)[1] |
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Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
lwo |
| Glottolog |
luwo1239[2] |
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.
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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5] Since Jur is a tribal language spoken by the Luwo, it is hard for the language to be modernized, meaning to have the language with one central dialect, and for the language to be translated easily. It is hard to to this with ethnic and tribal languages as they are usually not widely spoken outside of the tribe, and it is hard to start translating a language that has no common dialect or prior knowledge.
Sample phrases
| English | Luwo |
|---|---|
| Hello (How are you?) | Mahdhia (Ni dih)? |
| I am fine (nothing bad) | Gihn me raaj tooro. |
| What is your name? | Nyingi nga'a? |
| My name is Dimo | Nyinga Dimo |
| Child | Nyithiin |
| Boy | Nyidhohg |
| Girl | Nyakuo |
| God is great | Juag Duohng |
| Good | Beer |
| Thank you | Kori |
| Am happy | Ciwnya med |
References
- ↑ Jur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Luwo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5
- ↑ Santandrea, Stefano (1968). The Luo of the Bahr el Ghazal (Sudan). Bologna: Editrice Nigrizia.
- ↑ "Language Development". Ethnologue. 2012-11-20. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
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