Southern Luo is a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries. Although Southern Luo dialects are mutually intelligible,[citation needed] there are six ethnically and culturally distinct varieties which are considered to be separate languages socially.[citation needed]
Proto-Southern Luo has been reconstructed by Blount & Curley (1970).[2]
Varieties
The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the Glottolog database as follows:[3]