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
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: ssa
ISO 639-3: teo

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

  1. ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=teo Accessed 2007/07/09

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