Jur language

Jur, also known as Luwo (Luo, Dheluwo), is a language spoken by the Luwo people of Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. The language is predominantly spoken in the western and northern parts of Bahr el Ghazal.

The language is part of the Luo languages of East Africa and is especially related to the Jur languages of South Sudan such as Anyuak and Päri with whom it forms a dialect cluster.^[3]

Etymology

The Jur language is spoken by the Luwo (or Jur Col), an ethnic group in South Sudan. Jur is exonym adopted from the local Dinka language whose speakers are the Luwo's northern and eastern neighbours.^[4] Its original Dinka usage, non-cattle-holding non-Dinka, was not particular to the Jur. Jur Col ("black Jur") is today used to disambiguate Luwo from other Jur groups.

Status

Jur is currently a developing language. Meaning that the language is developing its written language, standard dialect and undoing modernization.^[5] Since Jur is a tribal language spoken by the Luwo, it is hard for the language to be modernized, meaning to have the language with one central dialect, and for the language to be translated easily. It is hard to to this with ethnic and tribal languages as they are usually not widely spoken outside of the tribe, and it is hard to start translating a language that has no common dialect or prior knowledge.

Sample phrases

References

Languages of South Sudan
Official language	English
Indigenous languages	Acholi Aja Avokaya Baale Bai Baka Bari Belanda Viri Beli Bongo Daasanach Didinga Dinka Dongotono Homa Indri Juba Arabic Jur Jur Modo Kaligi Kresh Kuku Lango Lokoya Lopit Lotuko Mangaya Moru Murle Naka Narim Ndogo Nuer Olu’bo Opuo Shilluk Suri Togoyo Toposa West Banda Zande