[jamese777]

“You’ll find that in the Arabian peninsula there are people who are known as “True Arabs”. This was the cultural heartland of the territory where the Arabic language was developed.
There are surrounding groups who have been Arabicized.

Anthropoligists and historians differentiate between the two.

Then, there’s a far larger group surrounding these people where Arabic is spoken. And beyond that, there’s a vast territory where Classical Arabic is taught for the purpose of reading the Koran.

Members of the Luo tribe who are Moslem are simply part of the vast hinterland where Classical Arabic is taught for historical purposes.

Culturally the Luo are Luo!

The Luo also appear to have Negroid characteristics ~ nose, degree of pigmentation, shape of skull, hair structure.”

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Yes.
Arabic is a Semitic language and the Luo languages are in the Nilo-Saharan language family. Its like comparing English with Swedish.
The peoples of the Rift Valley-Lakes Region are about as classically and anthropolgically east African as one can get. The oldest fossil, artifact, and DNA evidence of homo sapiens on the planet comes from this region, according to the “Out of Africa” theory of human origins.

[muawiyah]

English and Swedish have a common derivation in recent times from Old West Gothic. Old West Gothic is one of the Germanic families of languages within the Indo-European group. Indo-European is most closely related to the ancient Semitic group.

Luo, though, has a connection with Indo-European and Semitic languages in the pre-Ice Age period.