Moru–Madi languages

The languages in this cluster are found across three countries: Uganda (Maʼdi, Lugbara, Aringa, S. Maʼdi); South Sudan (Aringa, Maʼdi, Loluʼbo, Avukaya, Kaliko, Moru, and Logo); and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Lugbara, Avukaya, Kaliko, and Logo).

• Moru (Waʼdi variety divergent)
• Avokaya
• Keliko
• Omi
• Lugbara
• Okollo–Ogoko–Rigbo
• Logo
• Aringa (Lower Lugbara)
• Maʼdi (Moyo, Adjumani (Oyuwi), Pandikeri, Lokai, Burulo dialects)
• Oluʼbo (Lolubo)

The name Maʼdi is used for various peoples in the region. There is a tendency, especially in the Acholi region of northern Uganda, to refer to anyone from West Nile Region as a Maʼdi, even the Kakwa. The only group in this region who are never called Maʼdi are the Alur.^{[citation needed]}

Joseph Pasquale Crazzolara,^[1] for example, states that "all Logbara [...] agree that they are of the Maʼdi nation, that they are Maʼdi. They are called Maʼdi by the Alur of Okooro, their immediate neighbours, in Bunyoro and Buganda." Similarly, the linguist A. N. Tucker described the neighboring Keliko people who occupy the high plateau near the Logbara, as having the "real name Maʼdi".^[2] However, the Keliko regard themselves as Keliko rather than as Maʼdi.

Sample basic vocabulary of Moru–Madi languages from Boone & Watson (1996):^[3]