The Boya (also spelled Buya; called Larim and Langorim by the Didinga people) are a
Surmic ethnic group numbering 20,000 to 25,000 people living in
Budi County, part of the
Greater Kapoeta region of the
South Sudan
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ese state of the erstwhile
Eastern Equatoria
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.
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The language of the Boya is the Surmic Narim language, related to that of the Didinga, ]Tenet
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and Murle in South Sudan.
The people mostly live in the south and west Boya Hills, in the Mt. Kosodek and Mt. Lobuli areas.[
]
Notable people
*Lopez Lomong
Lopez Lomong (born January 5, 1985) is a South Sudanese-born American track and field athlete. Lomong, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, came to the United States at the age of 16 and became a U.S. citizen in 2007.
Lomong qualified for the 2008 Su ...
, American track athlete and Olympian
*Peter Lomong
Peter Lomong (born July 6, 1996, in Kimotong, Budi County, Kapoeta State, South Sudan) is a South Sudanese-American runner who competed for Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, US. His elder brother Lopez Lomong also competed for ...
, track athlete
References
External links
The Larim (Boya) of South Sudan
(Pitt Rivers Museum Photograph and Manuscript Collections)
Ethnic groups in South Sudan
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