Английская Википедия:Atuot people

Материал из Онлайн справочника
Перейти к навигацииПерейти к поиску

Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox ethnic group

The Atwot (Reel) are a Nilotic ethnic group of South Sudan who live near Yirol in Eastern Lakes State. They comprise a majority of the population in the payam of Yirol West.[1]

Language

Шаблон:Main The Atwot people speak the Atwot language (Atwot: Thok Reel), which was first recognized as a separate language from Dinka by anthropologist John Burton in 1987. It is a Western Nilotic language of the Dinka-Nuer group, closely related to the Nuer language and more distantly to the Luo languages. SIL International estimate that the number of Atuot speakers is 50,000.[2][3]

Atwot speakers distinguish two dialects to their language, Thok Reel Cieng Luai and Thok Reel Cieng Nhyam with Thok Reel Cieng Nhyam being the more lexically conservative of the two.[4] Most Atwot are bilingual in Dinka and Atwot.[5][6]

A distinctive feature of the language is its having of three contrastive vowel lengths.[7]

Culture

The Atwot share much of their culture with their neighbours. Like the Dinka and Nuer, they are also semi-sedentary cattle-herding pastoralists, meaning that while the travel with their herds to grazing grounds, they don't go far from where they had started.[3] There are seven subsections of the Atuot: Jilek, Luac, Jikeyi (Rorkec), Kuek, Apak, Akot and Ajong. The Ajong subsection claims to speak their own dialect known as Thok-ajong, a hard version of Thok Reel. Jikeyi and Kuek speak Thok Reel Cieng Nhyam. The Luac, Jilek, and Akot speak Thok Reel Cieng Luai.[2] The Apak speak Thong Apak which is dialect of South Central Dinka.[4]

Atwot country

There were approximately 24,700 Atwot at the time of the local dialect survey in 1987.[8] SIL estimates that there were over 50,000 Atwot in 1998.[2] The population of Yirol West in the 2008 Sudanese census was 103,190 although not all inhabitants of the municipality are Atwot.[9]

See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

Bibliography

Шаблон:Ethnic groups in South Sudan

Шаблон:Authority control

  1. Reid, p. 18
  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок atu-ethnologue не указан текст
  3. 3,0 3,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок Gurtong не указан текст
  4. 4,0 4,1 Reid, pp. 20-21
  5. Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок dib-ethnologue не указан текст
  6. Reid, p. 22
  7. Reid, pp. 196
  8. Roettger, p. 24
  9. Шаблон:Cite web