Kotoko

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The Kotoko are an ethnic group of fishing and farming communities living around the Lake Chad region in Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria, known historically for their riverine kingdoms and distinctive Chadic language.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kotoko canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
human population group
agriculturalCrops maize
millet
rice
sorghum
boatType dugout canoes
climate semi-arid
continent Africa
country Cameroon
Chad
Nigeria
culturalArea Central Chadic peoples
economicActivity cattle herding (limited)
floodplain agriculture
environment Sahelian zone
linked to: Sahel

wetlands of Lake Chad
ethnonym Kotoko people
fishingMethod net fishing
trap fishing
historicalInfluence Kanem–Bornu Empire
linked to: Kanem Empire
historicalPoliticalOrganization riverine kingdoms
historicalRegion Chari River basin
linked to: Chari River

Logone River valley
linked to: Logone floodplain
housingType mud-brick houses
languageBranch Biu–Mandara branch
languageFamily Chadic languages
majorReligion Sunni Islam
neighboringEthnicGroup Kanuri
linked to: Kanuri people

Mafa
Masa
Shuwa Arabs
partOf Lake Chad cultural area
linked to: Lake Chad basin
region Lake Chad region
linked to: Lake Chad basin
religiousInfluence Islamization from Kanem–Bornu
traditionalLanguage Afade language
Buduma language
Lagwan language
Malgbe language
Maslam language
Mpade language
Mser language
traditionalOccupation farming
fishing
riverine trade
traditionalSettlementType riverine communities

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lake Chad Basin ethnicGroups Kotoko
subject linked to: Lake Chad basin
Buduma neighboringGroups Kotoko