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. Wordlist This wordlist, taken from the appendix to Wilson (1970), is based on Akol's memories (and thus is considered by Wilson as belonging to the "Turkwell dialect"). He says that he collected words from the other dialect as well, but apparently never published them. The list consists of less than a hundred words, which are likely to be all the vocabulary that will ever be known of the language. Arrow: motit Bad: girito Black: timu Blue: puthia To boil water: mak Bow: terema To burn: mala Breast: kisina Brother: lukiya Bull: losogol Cat: ariet Cattle: pange Chalcedony: atunatun Child: muto Clever person: woth To cook: ipo Cooking pot (black): kiriente Cooking pot: kodo Cow: ngobo Cowrie shell: pel Crocodile: moro To cut: tubo Day: awar To dig: chege Dog: kokuye Dry: de-au Ear-ring: napiroi Ear: ki-ito Egg: iken Eland: ongor Enemy: bu Eye: kongiye Fat: moda Father: mamunyu Fire: emaa Fish: karu food: araukoo Fool: bung Foot: apaukoo Gazelle: tuth To give: we Goat: ngoror Good: pau Grass: purung Grooved design on pots: nacipa Hair: akopito Hand: akeleng Hard: keter Honey: madik House: apirgoo Leopard: meri To lie down: lura Lion: ru Man: muren Mark on forehead: nageran To marry: ritha Meat: apintoo Milk: coko Moon: Pele Mother-in-law: yo Mother: iyoo Neck bangles: gorom Night: riono Nose: torom Oil: konoye Old man: kuko Old woman: kukuye Penis: oyaa Rain: lat To receive: aruka Red: kopurat Seer: murwe Sheep: merek Sister: pese To sit: paja To sleep: sanan Snake: kwolta Soft: lujuk Soil: nyapid To speak: dokol Spear: ngokit Stone wrist bangle: aurare Sun: Aca To swim: redik Thief: mokorat Tooth: ne-et Tree: telegai Vagina: kibunte To walk: pauwo Warrior: lim Water: lata Wet: ret White: pele Witch: ariet Wizard: rimirim Woman: nakwanta Women's apron: ongor Bibliography J. G. Wilson. "Preliminary Observations on the Oropom People of Karamoja, their Ethnic Status, Culture, and Postulated Relation to the Peoples of the Late Stone Age." The Uganda Journal, 34, 2, 1970. pp. 125–145. Elderkin, E. D. (1983) 'Tanzanian and Ugandan isolates'. In Nilotic studies: proceedings of the international symposium on languages and history of