Ethnicity Toposa Writing system none | Region Eastern Africa Native speakers 100,000 (2000) | |
Language family Nilo-Saharan?Eastern SudanicNiloticEastern NiloticTeso–TurkanaToposa |
Toposa (also Akara, Kare, Kumi, Taposa, Topotha) is a Nilo-Saharan language (Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic) spoken in South Sudan by the Toposa people. Mutually intelligible language varieties include Jiye of South Sudan, Nyangatom of Ethiopia, Karimojong, Jie and Dodos of Uganda and Turkana of Kenya. Teso (spoken in both Kenya and Uganda) is lexically more distant.
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