Teso-Turkana languages

Teso-Turkana languages

Infobox Language family
name=Teso-Turkana
region=northwest Kenya, southeastern Sudan, northern Uganda
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Nilotic
fam4=Eastern Nilotic
fam5=Teso-Lotuko-Maa
child1=Ateso
child2=Karimojong
child3=Toposa
child4=Nyangatom
child5=Jie
child6=Turkana

The Teso-Turkana (or Ateker) languages are a cluster of Eastern Nilotic languages, spoken in northwest Kenya, northern Uganda, and southeastern Sudan. In effect they form a dialect cluster.

They include:
*Ateso language
*Karimojong language
*Toposa language
*Jie
*Nyangatom language

ee also

Ateker

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90142 "Ethnologue" Language Family Tree for Teso-Turkana]
* [http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Teso_root.html "Webbook" page on Teso-Turkana]
* [http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/TesoTurkana PanAfrican L10n page on Teso-Turkana]


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