Nilotic · ISO 639-3 alz
Alur Language Lur
Alur is a Nilotic language spoken by about 1.7 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Alur is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Alur
Language family
- Nilotic
- Western Nilotic
- Lwoo
- Southern Lwoo
- Adhola-Alur-Luo
- Alur
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Alur language
Alur (Lur) is spoken by about 1.7 million people, which makes it the 339th most spoken language in the world — just behind Kalanga (1.7 million) and ahead of Central Aymara (1.7 million). It belongs to the Nilotic language family and, more precisely, to the Adhola-Alur-Luo group within the Lwoo branch.
Where is Alur spoken?
Alur is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in DR Congo (1.7 million).
Alur is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Alur is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Lango (Uganda), Acoli and Shilluk.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 alz.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.