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Preferred term

achAcoli  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Acholi (also Acoli, Akoli, Acooli, Atscholi, Shuli, Gang, Lwoo, Lwo, Lok Acoli, Dok Acoli) is a language primarily spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, a region known as Acholiland in northern Uganda. Acholi is also spoken in the southern part of the Opari District of South Sudan. As of 1996 there were reported approximately 773,800 Acholi speakers in the world. However this has gradually grown to over 800,000. Song of Lawino and its sequel, Song of Ocol, well known among African literature, were written in Acholi by Okot p'Bitek.

Entry terms

  • Acholi language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • ach

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ach

ISO 639-3 code

  • ach

Notation

  • ach

In other languages

  • acoli

    French

  • Acholi
  • Acholi

    German

  • Acholi-Sprache
  • acioli

    Italian

  • acoli

    Portuguese

  • Língua acholi
  • acoli

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ach

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