| Language name: | LUO |
| UPSID number: | 4205 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Nilo-Saharan, East Sudanic |
| This language has | 32 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.461682373 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b t d k g tD0 dD6 tS dZ f s S m n nj N l r[ h i I "e aa a u U "o a_) j w ? |
| Comment: | ? occurs principally as a predictable prevocalic element. Luo has vowel harmony opposing i,e,o,u to the remaining vowels. Gregersen posits three level tones but two basic tones are more likely. |
| Source(s): | Gregersen, E.A. 1961. Luo: A Grammar. Ph. D. Dissertation. Yale University, New Haven. |