Alurn.adj.
/aˈlʊə/, /əˈlʊə/, U.S. /æˈlʊər/, /əˈlʊər/α. 1800s– Loor, 1800s– Lur.
β. 1900s– Aloro, 1900s– Alur, 1900s– Aluru.
γ. 1900s– Alulu.
δ. 1900s– Alua, 1900s– Aluo.
A. n.
1. A member of a people inhabiting the Nile region of northern Uganda.
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1883 R. N. Lust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. i. xi. 282 The Lúr occupy all the vast Region of the West of Albert Nyanza as far north as 3°10′ North Latitude. They meet the Madi on the North.
1905 J. F. Cunningham Uganda & its Peoples xv. 333 Amongst the neighbouring tribe, the Alulu, circumcision is unknown.
1956 A. W. Southall Alur Society i. ii. 22 The Alur may be accepted as a tribe in the sense of Fortes' socio-geographical region..but not in terms of more rigid definitions.
2006 N. Misdaq Afghanistan 22 The Alur occupied a large territory stretching between British Uganda and the Belgian Congo, now Zaire... Like other people in the region the Alur were patrilineal.
2. The Nilotic language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [noun] > Nilotic group of > Western
Acholi1874
Alur1883
Nuer1885
Lango1902
Shilluk1921
Luo1922
1883 R. N. Lust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 282 It may be assumed that both Lúr and Shilluk belong to the Shilluk Cluster of Languages.
1902 H. Johnston Uganda Protectorate II. xx. 887 There is an obvious relationship between the Masai and the Nilotic tongues—Dinka, Shiluk.., Dyur, Shangala, Acholi, Aluru (or Aluo), Lango, and Ja-luo.
1923 J. H. Driberg Lango 10 I have noticed that several Nilotic words used by the Akum, which do not occur in Lango, are nevertheless heard in Alur and Acholi.
1946 Nature 6 July 14/2 In the linguistic field, a vocabulary of Alur was compiled by Father Van Neste.
1977 E. A. Gregersen Lang. in Afr. iv. 34 In Alur and various other Nilotic languages, dentals and alveolars cannot both occur in the same word.
B. adj.
Of, belonging to, or designating the Alur or their language.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [adjective] > Nilotic > of or relating to Nilotic languages
Acholi1874
Alur1888
Turkana1894
Lango1902
Suk1902
Teso1902
Luo1909
Nandi1909
Masai1947
Kalenjin1957
1888 A. J. M. Jephson Diary 4 July (1969) xii. 266 The people all round Wadelai belong to the Loor race.
1902 H. Johnston Uganda Protectorate II. p. xi Aluru woman and child.
1956 A. W. Southall Alur Society p. x My participation in Alur dances aroused an absurd degree of delight in my hosts.
1979 Lore & Lang. Jan. 65 The most prevalent of all Luo myths—the spear, bean and bread story that seeks to explain the separation of the Acoli and Alur.
2010 J. Stokes Encycl. Peoples .Africa & Middle East 22/2 The historical Alur homeland is around the northwestern shores of Lake Albert and the Albert Nile.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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