Karamojong
/ˌkærəməˈdʒɒŋ/noun
A member of a pastoral people of northeastern Uganda, or the Eastern Nilotic language they speak.
Did you know?Karamojong belongs to the Ateker cluster of Eastern Nilotic languages and is closely related to Turkana, Toposa, and Teso.
Etymological Timeline
Early historical period
Eastern Nilotic
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“The ancestral linguistic stage from which Karamojong and related Ateker languages developed; no securely established original form of the ethnonym is known.”
Precolonial period
Karimojong
ŋikarimojong
“The indigenous ethnonym traditionally used for the people; analyses of its internal meaning remain uncertain.”
19th Century
European records
Karimojong
“A transcription used by explorers and colonial-era writers for the people and their language.”
20th Century
English
Karamojong
“The widely used English form referring to the people of Karamoja or their language.”
Modern English
English
Karamojong
“An ethnonym and language name associated especially with the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda.”