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'Ateker' or 'Atekerin' is a common name for the closely related Jie, Karimojong, Turkana, and Teso peoples and their languages. ''Itung'a'' and ''Teso'' have been used among ethnographers, while the term Teso-Turkana is sometimes used for the languages, which are of Eastern Nilotic stock. Ateker means 'clan' or 'tribe' in Teso.