Anuak language

{{short description|Luo language spoken by Anuak people in western Ethiopia and South Sudan}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Anuak

|nativename=Dha Anywaa

|states=Ethiopia, South Sudan

|region=Gambela, Greater Upper Nile

|ethnicity=Anuak

|speakers={{sigfig|221,600|2}}

|date = 2007–2017

|ref=e25

|script=Ge'ez, Latin

|familycolor=Nilo-Saharan

|fam2=Eastern Sudanic

|fam3=Southern Eastern

|fam4=Nilotic

|fam5=Western

|fam6=Luo

|fam7=Northern

|iso3=anu

|glotto=anua1242

|glottorefname=Anuak

}}

Anuak or Anywaa is a Luo language which belongs to the western Nilotic branch of the Nilotic language family. It is spoken primarily in the western part of Ethiopia and also in South Sudan by the Anuak people. Other names for this language include: Anyuak, Anywa, Yambo, Jambo, Yembo, Bar, Burjin, Miroy, Moojanga, Nuro. Anuak, Päri, and Jur-Luwo comprise a dialect cluster.Reh, Mechthild (1996): Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. p.5 The most thorough description of the Anuak language is Reh (1996) Anywa Language: Description and Internal Reconstructions, which also includes glossed texts.