They also have their special languages, called their ‘Kobura’ which the others do not understand. It is a hidden language; they speak it during danger. They are all from one family but got separated because of land, the land was not enough. They were at first pastoralists, and then diverged as pastoralists and agriculturalists.

Although there are differences in some of the words, some of the tribes like the Avokaya of Yei County, Lugbara and Keliko of Morobo speak one language with slight differences except Mundu and Baka which speak different languages.

There is also the Direr or Nubi, these people are a collection of tribes and their religion is Islam. They settled together in two main places, Malakia in Juba and Bombo near Kampala in Uganda. They are united by their religion, which came to them in the 1940s. They now consider themselves to be a new tribe originating from Central Equatoria State likewise.

The agriculturalists out of Central Equatoria tribes are the Bari, the Kuku, the Kakwa, the Avokaya, the Mundu, the Pojulu, the Lokoya, the Lulubo, the Nyangwara, the Keliko, and the Nyepo. They grow a variety of crops, including maize, cassava, sweet potatoes, ‘bolot or sorghum, groundnuts, beans. These tribes have two sets of crops to harvest every year, the first in June or July and the second in November or December. They also keep cattle, goats and sheep.