Teso–Turkana languages

The Teso–Turkana (or Ateker) languages are a cluster of Eastern Nilotic languages, eastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, northwestern Kenya, and southwestern Ethiopia. In effect they form a dialect cluster consisting of c.2 million people.

Teso–Turkana
Ateker
Geographic
distribution
southeastern South Sudan, northeastern Uganda, northwestern Kenya, southwestern Ethiopia
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Subdivisions
Glottologteso1248[1]

The languages are:

See also

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Teso–Turkana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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