Tacho people

{{Short description|Ethnic group of South Sudan}}

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Tacho is an indigenous ethnic group of South Sudan based mainly around southern Kordofan and in the Moro Hills{{cn|date=March 2024}} and in the areas surrounding the border between Sudan and South Sudan. They are also known by the names Tocho and Toicho;{{cite web|title=Tocho A Language of Sudan|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=taz|publisher=www.ethnologue.com|accessdate=9 September 2012}} about 90% of the population practice Islam as their main religion.

They speak Tocho, which is of the Talodi language group, with its root in the Niger-Congo languages. However they also speak Sudanese Arabic. Today their population possibly numbers less than 10,000.