Samburu language
Samburu is a Maa language dialect spoken by Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). The Samburu dialect is closely related to Camus dialect (88% to 94% lexical similarity) and to the South Maasai dialects (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word "Samburu" itself may derive from the Maa word saamburr for a leather bag the Samburu use.
| Samburu | |
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| 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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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | saq |
| Glottolog | samb1315[2] |
References
- Samburu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Samburu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
See also
- 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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