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Lango (also called Leb-Lango) is not exclusively a Luo language although past linguists have wrongly grouped it under 
Luo languages
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 into the Democratic Republic of the Cong ...
. It is a mixture of Ateker languages, and broken Luo dialects. The word "Lango" is used to describe both the language spoken by the indigenous and the tribe itself.
It is mainly spoken in Lango sub-region
Lango sub-region is a region in Uganda covering an area of 15,570.7km consisting of the districts of:
* Alebtong
*Amolatar
*Apac
*Dokolo
*Kole
*Lira
* Oyam
* Otuke
* Kwania
It covers the area previously known as Lango District until 19 ...
, in the North Central Region of Uganda, by approximately 1.5 million speakers. An orthography for it using the Latin script
The Latin script, also known as Roman script, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greece, Greek city of Cumae, in southe ...
has been introduced and is taught in primary schools.
The origin of Lango people
The Lango are a Nilo-Hamitic ethnic group of the Ateker peoples. They live in north-central Uganda, in a region that covers the area formerly known as the Lango District until 1974, when it was split into the districts of Apac and Lira, and ...
is strongly linked to Karamojong and Teso speaking people.
Writing system
Long vowels are indicated by doubling the vowel: .References
External links
Languages of Uganda Okoth Okombo, D. (1997). A Functional Grammar of Dholuo. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. {{ns-lang-stub