Niger-Congo › Bantu › Great Lakes Bantu › Greater Luyia
Speakers
6,800,000
ISO code
luy
Guthrie
JE.32
Region
Western Kenya (Kakamega, Bungoma, Vihiga, Busia, Trans-Nzoia counties) and parts of Eastern Uganda
About Luhya
ISO 639-3 macrolanguage code covering the cluster of mutually intelligible Luhya varieties (Central Luyia). The Luhya speak several related varieties that form a dialect continuum; some peripheral varieties (Bukusu, Logooli) are linguistically more distant.