Logooli | |
Nativename: | Lulogooli |
States: | Kenya |
Ethnicity: | Maragoli |
Speakers: | 620,000 |
Date: | 2009 census |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam7: | Bantu |
Fam8: | Northeast Bantu |
Fam9: | Great Lakes Bantu |
Fam10: | Logooli–Kuria (E.40) |
Iso3: | rag |
Glotto: | logo1258 |
Glottorefname: | Logooli |
Guthrie: | JE.41 |
Logooli (alternate names: Lugooli, Llugule, Llogole, Luragoli, Uluragooli, Maragooli, Maragoli, or Ragoli; native name: Lulogooli) is a Bantu language with several hundred thousand speakers in Kenya and a few hundred speakers in Mara Region, Tanzania. It is spoken by the Maragoli, the second-largest Luhya tribe, but is not particularly close to other languages spoken by the Luhya.