Toposa language

Toposa
Toposa
Toposa–Jiye
Native to	South Sudan
Region	Eastern Africa
Ethnicity	Toposa
Speakers	320,000 (2017)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Kir–Abbaian? Nilotic Eastern Nilotic Ateker–Lotuko–Maa Ateker Turkanic Toposa; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	none
Language codes
ISO 639-3	toq
Glottolog	topo1242

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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