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Ateker or ŋaTekerin is a common name for the closely related Jie Karamojong Turkana Toposa Nyangatom and Teso peoples and their languages. Itung’a and Teso have been used among ethnographers while the term Teso-Turkana is sometimes used for the languages which are of Eastern Nilotic stock. Ateker means ‘clan’ or ‘tribe’ in Teso language.

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language
Toposa language, Turkana language, Karamojong people, Teso language, Jie (Uganda), Nyangatom language
related
Nilotic peoples
religion
Christianity, Traditional African religion

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