Lopit language

Lopit
Region Southern Sudan
Ethnicity Lopit people
Native speakers
 50,000 (1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lpx
Glottolog lopi1242[2]

The Lopit language is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken by around 50,000 people in Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan.[3] Lopit is part of the Lotuko-Teso subfamily and is related to Lotuko, Turkana and Maasai.[4] Lopit is a VSO language and has a complex tonal system.[5]

The Lopit language has six different dialects: Ngabori spoken by Ngaboli sub community, Dorik spoken by Dorik Sub community, Ngotira spoken by Ngotira sub community, Omiaha spoken by Heju-Hiteng Sub community, Lohutok spoken by Lohutok sub community, and Lolongo spoken by Lolongo sub community. However, some small sub communities or villages for instance Loming, Ahado, Oriaju, Hidonge and may also involved Atarangi who speak Lotuko because of their proximity to the neighboring Lotuko community

References

  1. ↑ Lopit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lopit". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Ethnologue.com entry for Lopit
  4. ↑ Ethnologue.com family lineage for Lopit
  5. ↑ Vossen, Rainier, The Eastern Nilote: Linguistic + Historic reconstructions, Berlin: Dietrich, Reimer Verlag 1982


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