Acholi
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈtʃoʊ.li/
Noun
[edit]Acholi (plural Acholis or Acholi)
- (often in the plural) A member of people in northern Uganda and southern Sudan.
- 2004 C. Keitesi ["a former CI soldier who served with the NRM/A in northern Uganda"], in her autobiography, quoted in 2013, Opiyo Oloya, Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN):
- To him every Acholi was a rebel, [...]. Every time we captured an Acholi, we had to kill them, and Drago hated this.
- 2012, Ramkrishna Mukherjee, The Measure of Time in the Appraisal of Social Reality, Primus Books, →ISBN, page 10:
- The Acholis had barely given up hunting over a generation and now were growing the main cashcrops which were [...]. When further asked what would be the bride price for an Acholi, he blandly stated it as 100 shillings; ...
- 2004 C. Keitesi ["a former CI soldier who served with the NRM/A in northern Uganda"], in her autobiography, quoted in 2013, Opiyo Oloya, Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN):
Proper noun
[edit]Acholi
- A Nilo-Saharan language spoken primarily by this people, in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, a region known as Acholiland in northern Uganda.
See also
[edit]- About the Acholi people
- Wiktionary's coverage of Acholi terms
Acholi language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ethnologue entry for Acholi, ach 