Luo

noun

variants or Luoh or less commonly Lwo

ləˈwō

plural Luo or Luos or Luoh or Luohs

1

a

: a scattered pastoral people along various tributaries of the Nile and on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria

b

: a member of such people

2

: a Nilotic language of the Luo people

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