western Nilotic languages

{{Short description|Subgroup of the Nilotic language family}}{{Cleanup|reason=Wikify.|date=November 2016}}

{{Infobox language family

| name = Western Nilotic

| region = southwestern Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, northeastern Congo (DRC), northern and eastern Uganda, southwestern Kenya, northern Tanzania

| familycolor = Nilo-Saharan

| fam2 = Eastern Sudanic?

| fam3 = Southern Eastern?

| fam4 = Nilotic

| child1 = Dinka–Nuer–Reel

| child2 = Luo

| child3 = Burun

| glotto = west2493

| glottorefname = Western Nilotic

}}

The Western Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, along with the Eastern Nilotic languages and Southern Nilotic languages; Themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/nilotic|title=Nilotic|newspaper=Ethnologue|access-date=2016-10-31}} The about 22 (SIL estimate) Western Nilotic languages are spoken in an area ranging from southwestern Ethiopia and South Sudan via northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Uganda to southwestern Kenya (with one of the Luo languages extending into northern Tanzania).