Toposa | |
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Toposa–Jiye | |
Native to | South Sudan |
Region | Eastern Africa |
Ethnicity | Toposa |
Speakers | 320,000 (2017)[1] |
none | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | toq |
Glottolog | topo1242 |
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[2] and Dodos of Uganda and Turkana of Kenya. Teso (spoken in both Kenya and Uganda) is lexically more distant.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | k | |
Voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||
Affricate | Voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||
Voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||
Fricative | s | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Flap | r | ||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | ɪ | ʊ | |
Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |