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Karamojo|kærəˈməʊdʒəʊ|
Also Karamojong.
[Native name.]
a. A Nilotic people of north-eastern Uganda; a member of this people.
b. The language of this people.
1911Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 559/1 (heading) Nile negroes (Aluru,..Turkana and Karamojo). 1959A. Moorehead No Room in Ark vii. 137 The Karamojong is a warrior and a herdsman of cattle. Ibid. 144 The Karamojong warrior wears the kind of accessories a well-dressed western woman might have, but without the clothes. 1961Webster, Karamojong, a Nilotic language of the Karamojong people. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo i. 3 In the north-east [of Uganda] lay the Karamoja,..a semi-desert peopled by the Karamojong, a group of nomadic, pastoralist tribes. 1966J. H. Greenberg Lang. Afr. (ed. 2) v. 86 The Eastern Sudanic family has the following..branches:..Nilotic:..Eastern: Dodoth, Karamojong, Teso. Ibid., We may compare Nilo-Hamitic..Karamojong ano, Kakwa an with Nilotic Shilluk an, Anuak ana. |