Alternate Names: Akara, Kare, Kumi, Taposa, Topotha
Dialects: Eastern Toposa, Jiye, Western Toposa. Inherently intelligible with Nyangatom ,, Karamojong ,, and Turkana ,, but each has strong ethnic attitudes. Limited intelligibility of Teso ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 100,000 (2000 M. Schroeder). Most are monolingual.
Language Use: Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Positive attitudes. Used as L2 by Tennet [tex].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 5%. Perhaps 2,000 can read. Taught in primary schools. Dictionary. Bible portions: 2002–2006.
Typology: VSO (morphologically ergative); vowel harmony; questions: yes and no sentence final, content questions sentence initial and final; grammatical tone (tense, case).
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: South Sudan