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Preferred term

kookonjo  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • The Konjo (pl. Bakonjo, sing. Mukonjo), or Konzo, are a people located in the Rwenzori Mountains of southwest Uganda. Numbering 361,709 in the 1992 census, they live on the plains, hills and mountain slopes up to an altitude 2,200 meters. Traditionally agriculturalists and animal husbanders, they farm yams, beans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, soy beans, potatoes, rice, wheat, cassava, coffee, bananas, and cotton, while keeping goats, sheep, and poultry. The Konjo practice traditional religions and Christianity. Konjo speakers also live on the western slopes of the Rwenzori range in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Entry terms

  • Konzo

ISO 639-3 code

  • koo

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • Konjo

    French

  • Bakonjo

    German

  • Kikonzo

    Swahili

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/koo

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