Toposa language

Toposa
Toposa–Jiye
Native toSouth Sudan
RegionEastern Africa
EthnicityToposa
Speakers320,000 (2017)
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Language codes
ISO 639-3toq
Glottologtopo1242

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.