# Opuo language

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The **Opuo** (Opuuo, Opo) language, or **Tʼapo**, is a [Koman language](/source/Koman_language) spoken by the [Opo people](/source/Opo_people) of [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia) and [South Sudan](/source/South_Sudan). It has a lexical similarity of 24% with [Komo](/source/Komo_language). The language is also called Opo-Shita, Opo, Opuo, Cita, Ciita, Shita (along with [Dana](/source/Dana_language)), Shiita, Ansita, Kina, and Kwina. The self-name for the language is Tʼapo. "Langa" is a derogatory term for its speakers used by the [Anuak](/source/Anuak_people).[1]

[citation needed] however, of the 286 speakers the 1994 Ethiopian Census records, 183 are in the [Oromia Region](/source/Oromia_Region) (mostly in the [Mirab Shewa Zone](/source/Mirab_Shewa_Zone)), 32 in the [Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region](/source/Southern_Nations,_Nationalities,_and_People's_Region), and less than ten in either of the Regions closest to South Sudan.[2]

An early record of this language is a list of 32 village names and a wordlist dated February 1883 by [Juan Maria Schuver](/source/Juan_Maria_Schuver), where he calls the language "Gambiel".[3]

## References

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1. ["The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia"](http://www.csa.gov.et/surveys/Population%20and%20Housing%20Census%201994/survey0/index.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20081207032949/http://www.csa.gov.et/surveys/Population%20and%20Housing%20Census%201994/survey0/index.html) 2008-12-07 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 31 January 2009)

1. Wendy James, *et al.*, *Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883* (London: Hakluyt Society, 1996), pp. 335-340

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