Ateso language
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| Ateso ? |
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| Spoken in: | Kenya and Uganda | |
| Region: | Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana | |
| Total speakers: | 1,278,537. (1991) | |
| Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic Eastern Nilotic Lotuxo-Teso Teso-Turkana Ateso Ateso |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ssa | |
| ISO 639-3: | teo | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ateso (also known as Iteso or Teso) is a Nilo-Saharan language, spoken by the Iteso ethnic group in Uganda and Kenya. It is one of the Teso-Turkana cluster of languages.
As of the 1991 census around 999,537 people in Uganda spoke Ateso. An estimated 279,000 people in Kenya also speak it. Its SIL code is TEO [1].
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=teo Accessed 2007/07/09
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