Laro people

Laro
Languages
Laro
Religion
Christianity, Sunni Islam

The Laro are an ethnic group in Sudan, numbering several tens of thousands. Their traditional home is in the Nuba Hills near the Heiban people.[1]

They speak Laro, a Niger–Congo language. Many members of this group are Christians, but a minority of them are Muslims. [2][3]

References

  1. ^ Peristiany, J. G. (January 1949). "The Nuba. An Anthropological Study of the Hill Tribes in Kordofan. By S. F. Nadel, with a Foreword by Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston, Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Oxford University Press, 1947. Pp. 527. 42s" (PDF). Africa. p. 28. doi:10.2307/1156266. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
  2. ^ "People of Laro celebrate intermarriage". Catholic Radio Network for South Sudan and Nuba Mountains | CRN. 14 May 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  3. ^ "SUDAN COUNTRY REPORT" (PDF). IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY DIRECTORATE HOME OFFICE, UNITED KINGDOM. April 2004. p. 98.


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