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Adhola dialect

Adhola, also known as Jopadhola and Ludama, is a dialect of Southern Luo spoken by the Adhola people (a.k.a. Jopadhola or Badama) of Uganda.[2] Dhopadhola is generally mutually intelligible with Acholi, Kumam, and Alur of Uganda and Dholuo of Kenya.

Adhola
Dhopadhola
Native toUganda
RegionTororo District
EthnicityAdhola people
Native speakers
480,000 (2014 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3adh
Glottologadho1243

The prefix dho means "language of". It can be attached to a nationality or speech community to imply the language of such a people. jo means "people of". The infix pa means possessive 'of'.

Dhopadhola thus means the language spoken in Padhola.
Padhola is the area or region where Dhopadhola is spoken.
Jopadhola is the plural of Japadhola; a person who speaks Dhopadhola. Hence, Jopadhola are speakers of Dhopadhola.

Ja is a prefix meaning the 'doer' or a person belonging to a particular place or position. The plural is Jo. That is, people who do something or belong to a particular place or organisation.

For instance
Jafwonji means a teacher.
Jofwonji means teachers.
Jawer means a singer.
Jower means singers.
Janywol means a parent.
Jonywol means parents.
Japach means a carpenter.
Jopach means carpenters.

References

  1. ^ Adhola at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)  
  2. ^ OLAC Language Resource Catalog


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