Atuot people

The Atuot (also, Reel) are an ethnic group living in the South Sudan in the Upper Nile River Valley, states of Lakes and Bahr-el-Ghazal. They speak the Atuot language, which was first described at a separate language from Dinka by anthropologist John Burton in 1987. It is a Nilotic language related to the Nuer language. The SIL International estimate of speakers of the Atuot language is 50,000.