ISO 639-3 · teoteo
Nilo-Saharan family
Teso
Teso is a language of the Eastern Nilotic branch (Nilo-Saharan), spoken in Kenya and Uganda. Wikidata describes it as “language spoken by the Iteso people of Uganda and Kenya”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
teo- Glottocode
teso1249- Family
- Nilo-Saharan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Wikipedia
- 14 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Teso |
|---|---|
| Also called | Teso language, Ateso |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Nilo-Saharan to Teso
The branches above Teso, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Kenya
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafepanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafeswhKiswahiliNiger–Congo · 98.3 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialormOromoAfroasiatic · 36 msomSomaliAfroasiatic · 16.2 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mkikGikuyuNiger–Congo · 6.6 m5 · DevelopingayhHadhrami ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.5 m6a · Vigorous