| Toposa | |
| Also Known As: | Toposa–Jiye |
| States: | South Sudan |
| Region: | Eastern Africa |
| Ethnicity: | Toposa |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Speakers Label: | Speakers |
| Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
| Fam2: | Eastern Sudanic? |
| Fam3: | Kir–Abbaian? |
| Fam4: | Nilotic |
| Fam5: | Eastern Nilotic |
| Fam6: | Ateker–Lotuko–Maa |
| Fam7: | Ateker |
| Fam8: | Turkanic |
| Iso3: | toq |
| Glotto: | topo1242 |
| Glottorefname: | Toposa |
| Script: | none |
| Notice: | IPA |
Toposa (also Akara, Kare, Kumi, Taposa, Topotha) is a Nilo-Saharan language (Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic) spoken in South Sudan by the Toposa people. Mutually intelligible language varieties include Jiye of South Sudan, Nyangatom of Ethiopia, Karimojong, Jie[1] and Dodos of Uganda and Turkana of Kenya. Teso (spoken in both Kenya and Uganda) is lexically more distant.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Voiceless | pronounced as /p/ | pronounced as /t/ | pronounced as /k/ | ||
| Voiced | pronounced as /b/ | pronounced as /d/ | pronounced as /ɡ/ | |||
| Affricate | Voiceless | pronounced as /t͡ʃ/ | ||||
| Voiced | pronounced as /d͡ʒ/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /s/ | |||||
| pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /n/ | pronounced as /ɲ/ | pronounced as /ŋ/ | |||
| Flap | pronounced as /r/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /w/ | pronounced as /l/ | pronounced as /j/ | |||
| Close | i | u | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | e | o | ||
| Open |
| Close | ɪ | ʊ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a |