Opuuo language

Opuuo
Spoken in	Ethiopia
Region	Along the Ethiopia–South Sudan border
Native speakers	1,751 in Ethiopia[1]  (date missing)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Koman Opuuo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lgn

The Opuuo language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Shita of Ethiopia and South Sudan. It is a member of the Koman languages, and has a lexical similarity of 24% with Komo. The language is also called Opo-Shita, Opo, Opuo, Cita, Ciita, Shita, Shiita, Ansita, Kina, and Kwina. "Langa" is a derogatory term for its speakers used by the Anuak.^[2]

The Ethnologue entry states that its native Ethiopian speakers live in five villages along the South Sudan border north of the Anuak and Nuer, and its South Sudanese in Upper Nile State, around Kigille and Maiwut;^[2] however, of the 286 speakers the 1994 Ethiopian Census records, 183 are in the Oromia Region (mostly in the Mirab Shewa Zone), 32 in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, and less than ten in either of the Regions closest to South Sudan.^[3]

References

1. ^ Ethiopia 2007 Census
2. ^ ^{a b} Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Ethnologue entry for Opuuo
3. ^ "The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia" (accessed 31 January 2009)

External links

• "Map of the Opuuo language", LL-Map website