Tugen language

Tugen
	North Tugen
Native to	Kenya
Region	West Central Kenya
Native speakers	140,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Nilotic Kalenjin Nandi–Markweta Nandi Tugen; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tuy
Glottolog	tuge1241[2]
Linguasphere	0-CAA-be (tugen-N.) + 0-CAA-db (tugen-S.)

Tugen is the language spoken by the about 200,000 Tugen people of the broader Kalenjin group in Kenya. As a part of the Kalenjin dialect cluster, it is most closely related to such varieties as Kipsigis and Nandi.

The Tugen is made up of three main sub-groups, the Lembus to the south, the Arror in the north and the Samor in the central parts of Baringo district, Kenya.

References

Tugen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tugen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Tugen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tugen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.