Tepes language

Soo
Tepes
Region	Uganda
Ethnicity	5,000 (2007)^[1]
Native speakers	50 (2012)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Kuliak Soo
Dialects	Tepes Kadam Napak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`teu`
Glottolog	`sooo1256`^[2]

Soo is the Kuliak language of the Tepes people of northeastern Uganda. It is also spelled So and Tepeth. The language is moribund, with most of the population of 5,000 having shifted to Karamojong, and only a few elders still speaking Soo. So is divided into three major dialects, Tepes, Kadam (Katam) and Napak (Yog toŋi).

References

1 2 Soo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Soo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Uganda

Official languages

Indigenous languages

Bantu	Amba Gungu Khayo Gwere Khayo Kiga Kinyarwanda Luganda Luhya Marachi Masaba Nkore Nkore-Kiga Nyole Nyoro Ruuli Samia Singa Soga Talinga Tooro

Nilo-Saharan	Acholi Adhola Alur Aringa Bari Elgon Ik Karamojong Kuku Lango Lugbara Nyangia Pökoot Southern Luo Tepes Teso

Others	Kitara Nubi Oropom

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