Samburu language
| Samburu | |
|---|---|
| Sampur, ɔl Maa | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | Samburu district of Rift Valley Province |
Native speakers |
240,000 (2009 census)[1] (including Camus) |
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Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
saq |
| Glottolog |
samb1315[2] |
Samburu is the Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language spoken by the Samburu in the highlands of northern Kenya. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). Samburu is closely related to Camus (88% to 94% lexical similarity; Camus is sometimes considered a Samburu dialect) and to the South Maa language Maasai (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word Samburu itself derives from the old Maa word 'saamburr' for the leather bag the Samburu use.
References
- ↑ Samburu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Samburu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Rainer Vossen. The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1982. ISBN 3-496-00698-6.
External links
- Maa Language Project
- Embuku E Sayiata Too Ltung'ana Pooki Maasai-Samburu Anglican Prayer Book (1967), digitized by Richard Mammana
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Several different tribes in Kenya use this language, The Ilchamus, for example.
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