Teso–Turkana languages

The Teso–Turkana (or Ateker) languages are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages spoken in southeastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, northwestern Kenya, and southwestern Ethiopia. In effect they form a dialect cluster consisting of c.2 million people. According to Gerrit Dimmendaal, most of these languages – Karimojong, Jie, Toposa, Turkana, and Nyangatom – are mutually intelligible, and for the most part differ only in regard to tone.[1] Teso belongs to the same broad group but is not described as being as closely related to Turkana as the others.

Teso–Turkana
Ateker
Geographic
distribution
southeastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, northwestern Kenya, southwestern Ethiopia
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
Glottologteso1248

The languages are:

See also

References

  1. Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (1983) The Turkana language. Dordrecht: Foris. ISBN 90-70176-83-1


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