Adhola, also known as ''Jopadhola'' and ''Ludama'', is a dialect of

Southern Luo Southern Luo is a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries. Although Southern Luo dialects are mutually intelligible, there are six ethnically and culturally distinct varieties which are considered to be separate languages socially. P ...

spoken by the

Adhola people The Adhola people, also known as Jopadhola, are a Nilotic ethnic group of Luo peoples that live in Tororo District of Eastern Uganda and comprise about eight percent of the country's total population. They speak Dhopadhola, (a Luo language), ...

(a.k.a. ''Jopadhola'' or ''Badama'') of

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.OLAC Language Resource Catalog
/ref> Dhopadhola is generally

mutually intelligible In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...

with Acholi,

Kumam The Kumam are a Nilo-Hamitic ethnic group of about 349,000 living mainly in the western areas of Teso sub-region and the south-east of Lango sub-region. The Kumam are an ethnic group of people found in Kaberamaido district, district in Eastern Ug ...

, and Alur of Uganda and

Dholuo The Dholuo dialect (pronounced ) or ''Nilotic Kavirondo'', is a dialect of the Luo group of Nilotic languages, spoken by about 4.2 million Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, who occupy parts of the eastern shore of Lake Victoria and areas to the ...

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. The prefix ''dho'' means "language of". It can be attached to a nationality or speech community to imply the language of such a people. ''jo'' means "people of". The infix ''pa'' means possessive 'of'. ''Dhopadhola'' thus means the language spoken in Padhola.
''Padhola'' is the area or region where Dhopadhola is spoken.
''Jopadhola'' is the plural of ''Japadhola''; a person who speaks Dhopadhola. Hence, ''Jopadhola'' are speakers of Dhopadhola. ''Ja'' is a prefix meaning the 'doer' or a person belonging to a particular place or position. The plural is ''Jo''. That is, people who do something or belong to a particular place or organisation. For instance
''Jafwonji'' means a teacher.
''Jofwonji'' means teachers.
''Jawer'' means a singer.
''Jower'' means singers.
''Janywol'' means a parent.
''Jonywol'' means parents.
''Japach'' means a carpenter.
''Jopach'' means carpenters.

References

Languages of Uganda Luo languages {{ns-lang-stub