Talk:Acholi dialect

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Acoli? Dialect?
Why is it called a "dialect"? Several books cited in references call it a "language".

And why is "Acoli" the spelling in the title? In Ethnologue, the English name and the autonym is "Acholi". --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:02, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Since there weren't any replies, and it seems more sensible to call this "Acholi" and "language", I am moving Acoli dialect to Acholi language and Acoli people to Acholi people. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * At 22:27, 28 December 2012‎ moved page Talk:Acholi language to Talk:Acholi dialect – wbm1058 (talk) 13:13, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * At 10:10, 7 July 2018‎ moved page Talk:Acholi dialect to Talk:Acoli dialect: Too many inconsistencies with the spelling. The correct spelling is ACOLI and not ACHOLI so tried to tidy pages to bring about consistency. – wbm1058 (talk) 13:16, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps you could have read the article? Acholi is a dialect of Luo, mutually intelligible with other dialects. The speakers are ethnically distinct, but that's of little concern for classifying a language. And yes, AFAIK, "Acholi" is the normal spelling in English, so we should be there. — kwami (talk) 20:45, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * kwami, I've read the article. In this article, the part that says that it's mutually intelligible is marked as "dubious", the article Southern Luo language barely has any references at all, and a lot of cited books call it a "language". So it is really true that it's a dialect of Luo? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:15, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Could be. I have no direct knowledge. I don't remember my source for claiming they're MI, but Ethnologue reports MI between all the branches of Southern Luo. If we're going to revert that (and we should be going off more evidence than just someone adding a 'dubious' tag to a WP article!), then the articles should be revised accordingly, rather than just moving the article and leaving the contradiction for our readers to solve on their own. If you don't want to revise the articles, then there are places where you can ask for them to be corrected, such as Wikiproject Languages. That should go together with any move. — kwami (talk) 00:04, 13 May 2019 (UTC)