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- Oropom_language abstract "Oropom (Oworopom, Oyoropom, Oropoi) is a dubious and, if real, almost certainly extinct African language, purportedly once spoken by the Oropom people in northeastern Uganda and northwestern Kenya between the Turkwel River, the Chemorongit Mountains, and Mount Elgon. There is only one article containing any original research on the language, Wilson 1970, which only a handful of other articles discuss. Wilson's article furnishes only a short word list, and was written at a time when the language, if it existed, was nearly extinct. It was based mainly on the limited memories of two very old women, one "a child of one of the residual Oropom families that had remained after the break-up of the Oropom here (Matheniko county)" who "remembered a few words of the language", the other an old lady called Akol "descended from the prisoners taken by the Karimojong on the Turkwel" who was "able to furnish many Oropom words". Under the circumstances, only the barest details of the language could be ascertained.On this basis, Wilson concluded that it must have had at least two dialects: one spoken around the Turkwel area, containing a significant number of Luo words, and some Bantu words, and one spoken around Matheniko county with fewer Luo words. Both contain Kalenjin loanwords.Wilson ascribed it to the Khoisan group, seemingly based solely on its physical appearance; but this identification is unreliable; Harold Fleming describes it as a "ridiculous suggestion". Elderkin 1983 says that "The Oropom data of Wilson (1970) shows some resemblances to Kuliak, some of which could well be mediated through Nilotic, with which it seems to have more resemblances (F. Rottland, personal communication)... There are many fewer resemblances worth noting with Hadza and only a minimal number with Sandawe." He quotes 8 potentially similar words between Oropom and Hadza, and 4 between Oropom and Sandawe. Harold Fleming also notes that "initial inspection suggests some possible commonality" between Oropom and the Kuliak languages, a probably Nilo-Saharan relic group found in Northern Uganda among such tribes as the Ik. However, in the absence of further work, Oropom remains an unclassified language.Bernd Heine, who surveyed the area less than ten years after Wilson and found no trace of the language, expressed skepticism that it existed at all. Both Lionel Bender and Roger Blench have opined that the language was made up as a joke. Souag 2004 lists several motives Wilson's informants might have had to fabricate the language, and observes that even in his article, Wilson notes that he had to deal with "charlatans" once word got out that he was looking for anyone with knowledge of the language.".
- Oropom_language iso6393Code "none".
- Oropom_language spokenIn Kenya.
- Oropom_language spokenIn Uganda.
- Oropom_language wikiPageID "979043".
- Oropom_language wikiPageRevisionID "596947067".
- Oropom_language extinct "c. 1950".
- Oropom_language familycolor "unclassified".
- Oropom_language hasPhotoCollection Oropom_language.
- Oropom_language iso "none".
- Oropom_language name "Oropom".
- Oropom_language states Kenya.
- Oropom_language states Uganda.
- Oropom_language subject Category:Extinct_languages_of_Africa.
- Oropom_language subject Category:Languages_of_Uganda.
- Oropom_language subject Category:Spurious_languages.
- Oropom_language subject Category:Unclassified_languages_of_Africa.
- Oropom_language type Abstraction100002137.
- Oropom_language type Act100030358.
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- Oropom_language type Deception100752431.
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- Oropom_language type ExtinctLanguagesOfAfrica.
- Oropom_language type Falsification100751145.
- Oropom_language type Fraud100753685.
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- Oropom_language type LanguagesOfUganda.
- Oropom_language type LinguisticHoaxes.
- Oropom_language type PsychologicalFeature100023100.
- Oropom_language type Trickery100752954.
- Oropom_language type UnclassifiedLanguagesOfAfrica.
- Oropom_language type Wrongdoing100732746.
- Oropom_language type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Oropom_language type Language.
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- Oropom_language comment "Oropom (Oworopom, Oyoropom, Oropoi) is a dubious and, if real, almost certainly extinct African language, purportedly once spoken by the Oropom people in northeastern Uganda and northwestern Kenya between the Turkwel River, the Chemorongit Mountains, and Mount Elgon. There is only one article containing any original research on the language, Wilson 1970, which only a handful of other articles discuss.".
- Oropom_language label "Oropom language".
- Oropom_language label "Оропом (язык)".
- Oropom_language sameAs m.03w69t.
- Oropom_language sameAs Q4337031.
- Oropom_language sameAs Q4337031.
- Oropom_language sameAs Oropom_language.
- Oropom_language wasDerivedFrom Oropom_language?oldid=596947067.
- Oropom_language isPrimaryTopicOf Oropom_language.
- Oropom_language name "Oropom".