| Southern Luo (Lwo) | |
| Also Known As: | Southern Lwoo |
| Region: | South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the DRC |
| Ethnicity: | Luo peoples |
| Speakers: | million |
| Date: | 2001–2009 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Eastern Sudanic? |
| Fam3: | Southern Eastern? |
| Fam4: | Nilotic |
| Fam5: | Western |
| Fam6: | Luo |
| Dia1: | Acholi |
| Dia2: | Adhola–Alur–Luo |
| Dia3: | Kumam–Lango |
| Iso2: | luo |
| Lc1: | adh |
| Ld1: | Adhola |
| Lc2: | kdi |
| Ld2: | Kumam |
| Lc3: | luo |
| Ld3: | Dholuo |
| Lc4: | alz |
| Ld4: | Alur |
| Lc6: | ach |
| Ld6: | Acholi |
| Lc5: | laj |
| Ld5: | Lango |
| Glotto: | sout2831 |
| Glottorefname: | Southern Lwoo |
Southern Luo is a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries. Although Southern Luo dialects are mutually intelligible, there are six ethnically and culturally distinct varieties which are considered to be separate languages socially.
Proto-Southern Luo has been reconstructed by Blount & Curley (1970).[1]
The Southern Luo dialects are classified within the Glottolog database as follows:[2]