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Lango People
The Lango are a Nilotic peoples, Nilotic ethnic group. They live in north-central Uganda, in a region that covers the area formerly known as the Lango sub-region, Lango District until 1974, when it was split into the districts of Apac District, Apac and Lira District, Lira, and subsequently into several additional Districts of Uganda, districts. The current Lango Region now includes the districts of Amolatar District, Amolatar, Alebtong District, Alebtong, Apac, Dokolo District, Dokolo, Kole District, Kole, Lira District, Lira, Oyam District, Oyam, Otuke District, Otuke, and Kwania District, Kwania. The total population of Lango District is currently about 2,884,000. The Lango people speak the Lango language (Uganda), Lango language, a Western Nilotic languages, Western Nilotic language of the Southern Luo language, Southern Luo group. Early history The Lango oral tradition states that they were part of the "Lango race" during the Migration Period, migration period. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Nilotic
The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic languages, Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan languages, Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in South Sudan. They are spoken across a large area in East Africa, ranging from Equatoria to the highlands of Tanzania. Their speakers are mostly pastoralism, cattle herders living in semi-arid or arid plains. Classification According to Vossen (1982), the Eastern Nilotic languages are basically classified as follows by the comparative method. Vossen (1982) also provides a reconstruction of Proto-Eastern Nilotic. *Eastern Nilotic **Bari languages **Teso–Lotuko–Maa: ***Teso–Turkana languages, Teso–Turkana (or Ateker; incl. Karimojong) ***Lotuko–Maa: ****Lotuko languages *****Lango language (South Sudan), Lango language *****Lopi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otuke District
Otuke District is a district in Northern Uganda. Like many other Ugandan districts, Otuke district is named after its 'chief town', Otuke, where the district headquarters are located. Location Otuke District is bordered by Agago District to the north, Abim District to the northeast, Napak District to the east, Amuria District to the southeast, Alebtong District to the south, Lira District to the southwest and Pader District to the northwest. Otuke, where the district headquarters are located, lies approximately , by road, east of Lira, the largest city in the sub-region. The coordinates of the district are:02 30N, 33 30E (Latitude:2.5000; Longitude:33.5000). Overview Otuke District was carved out of Lira District effective 1 July 2009. The district is administered by the Otuke District Administration, with its headquarters at Otuke. Otuke is among the nine districts that make up Lango sub-region, which consists of the districts listed below. Lango sub-region was home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jie People
Jie or JIE may refer to: * Jie of Xia, last ruler of the Xia dynasty of China * Jie Zhitui or Zitui (7th centuryBC), a famed minister of Zhou dynasty * Jie people, tribe in the Xiongnu Confederation in the 4th and 5th centuries * Jie (Uganda), an ethnic group of Ugandan pastoralists * Jiye/Jie, an ethnic group in Eastern Equatoria state, South Sudan * Jiedao, subdistrict, an administrative division in China * Yu Jie, Chinese author * '' Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics'' (''JIE'') * '' Journées Information Eaux'' (JIE), a French congress about water * Mispronunciation of Xie (surname 解) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karamojong Language
The Karamojong language (spelled ''ŋaKarimojoŋ'' or ''ŋaKaramojoŋ'' in Karamojong; Ngakarimojong or N'Karamojong in English) is a Nilotic languages, Nilotic language spoken by the Karamojong people in Northeast Uganda. Ngakarimojong is a Nilotic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family (Encyclopædia Britannica) spoken by at least 370,000 people in Uganda – the Karamojong people, or ''ŋiKarimojoŋ'' in their language. The name approximates to "the old men sat down", dating from a time of migration 300 or more years ago when this group refused to travel further on (to what is now Teso). They are a cattle-keeping people practising transhumance, which is reflected in the language as are their traditional religious beliefs. Settled cultivation is relatively recent and thus words associated with this are usually borrowed from neighbouring languages or from languages introduced by, or as a result of, colonialism – English language, English, Luganda, Swahili language, Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumam Dialect
Kumam is a language of the Southern Lwoo group spoken by the Kumam people of Uganda. It is estimated that the Kumam dialect has 82 percent lexical similarity with the Acholi dialect, 81 percent with the Lango dialect. Phonology Consonants Gemination can occur due to morphological processes, for example ''del'' 'skin' + ''-ná'' → ''dellá'' 'my skin'. Vowels Kumam has ten vowels, with a vowel harmony system based on presence or absence of advanced tongue root (ATR). Vowels have no distinction in length, except due to some morphological processes, for instance compensatory lengthening that occurs when applying the transitive infinitive suffix ''-nɔ'': ''ted-'' 'cook' + ''-ne'' → *ted-do → ''teedo'' 'to cook'. Tone There exist six tones: low, high, falling, rising, downstep high and double downstep high. Tone sandhi Kumam exhibits tone sandhi Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teso Language
Teso (endonym ''Ateso'') is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken by the Teso people of Uganda and Kenya and some speakers are in South Sudan. It is part of the Teso–Turkana language cluster. According to the 2012 Uganda population and housing census, over 11.57 million people in Uganda (66.7 percent of the total Demographics of Uganda, Uganda population) spoke Ateso. Also, an estimated 279,000 people in Kenya speak the language. Its ISO 639-3 code is teo. Ateso is spoken in the Teso sub-region. Ateso is also known as ''Bakedi'', ''Bakidi'', ''Elgumi'', ''Etossio'', ''Ikumama'', ''Iteso'', ''Teso'' or ''Wamia''. It is closely related to Turkana language, Turkana and Karamojong language, Karamojong. Alphabet There are 22 letters in the Ateso alphabet. The letters ''f'', ''h'', ''q'', ''v'', ''h'', ''x'' and ''z'' are not used, while the alphabet includes additionally the letter ''ŋ'' and digraph ''ny''. The above mentioned letters only appear in loan words, loanwords. The pronunc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migration Period
The Migration Period ( 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of post-Roman kingdoms there. The term refers to the important role played by the migration, invasion, and settlement of various tribes, notably the Burgundians, Vandals, Goths, Alemanni, Alans, Huns, early Slavs, Pannonian Avars, Bulgars and Magyars within or into the territories of Europe as a whole and of the Western Roman Empire in particular. Historiography traditionally takes the period as beginning in AD 375 (possibly as early as 300) and ending in 568. Various factors contributed to this phenomenon of migration and invasion, and their role and significance are still widely discussed. Historians differ as to the dates for the beginning and ending of the Migration Period. The beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oral Tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.Jan Vansina, Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (1985), reported statements from present generation which "specifies that the message must be oral statements spoken, sung or called out on musical instruments only"; "There must be transmission by word of mouth over at least a generation". He points out, "Our definition is a working definition for the use of historians. Sociologists, linguists or scholars of the verbal arts propose their own, which in, e.g., sociology, stresses common knowledge. In linguistics, features that distinguish the language from common dialogue (linguists), and in the verbal arts features of form and content that define art (folklorists)."Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: "Methodology and African Pre-history", 1990, ''UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lango House
Lango may refer to: Africa *Lango sub-region, previously known as Lango District, Uganda *Lango people, of Uganda **Lango language (Uganda), their language * Lango people (South Sudan) **Lango language (South Sudan), their language * Didinga people of Sudan ** Didinga language Asia * Lango tribe, Pakistan Europe *Lángos, a Hungarian-style fried bread * Lango, the Venetian and Genoese name for the Greek island of Kos Kos or Cos (; ) is a Greek island, which is part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 37,089 (2021 census), making ... * Langø Island, Denmark Other uses * Lango (app), an icon-based messaging app {{disambig, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Luo Language
The Southern Luo languages are a subgroup of the Luo languages and form a dialect cluster spoken from Uganda and neighboring countries. Classification The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the Glottolog database as follows: * Southern Lwoo ** Acholi ** Adhola–Alur–Luo *** Adhola–Luo **** Adhola **** Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) The Luo are a Nilotic-speaking ethnic group native to western Kenya and the Mara Region of northern Tanzania. The Luo are the fourth-largest ethnic group (10.65%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (17.13%), the Luhya (14.35%) and the Kalenjin (1 ... *** Alur ** Lango–Kumam *** Kumam *** Lango (Uganda) References Luo languages Languages of Uganda {{ns-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Nilotic Languages
The Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, along with the Eastern Nilotic languages and Southern Nilotic languages; Themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. The about 22 ( SIL estimate) Western Nilotic languages are spoken in an area ranging from southwestern Ethiopia and South Sudan via northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Uganda to southwestern Kenya (with one of the Luo languages extending into northern Tanzania). Families The Western Nilotic languages are Nilotic languages, which themselves are part of the Kir–Abbaian and Eastern Sudan subfamilies of the much larger Nilo-Saharan language family. Subdivisions Western Nilotic is divided into three main clusters: Dinka–Nuer, Luo and Burun. The Luo Languages are languages spoken by the Luo peoples. They include but are not fully limited to, Shilluk, Luwo, Thuri, Belanda Bor, Burun, Päri, Anuak, and Souther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
