Turkana language

Turkana /tɜːrˈkɑːnə/[3] is the language of the Turkana people of Kenya. It is spoken in northwestern Kenya, primarily in Turkana County, which lies west of Lake Turkana. It is one of the Eastern Nilotic languages, and is closely related to Karamojong, Jie and Teso of Uganda, to Toposa spoken in the extreme southeast of South Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the South Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Ateker Languages.

Turkana
Ng'aturk(w)ana
Native toKenya
RegionNorthwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana
Native speakers
1,013,000 (2007-2009)[1]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tuv – Turkana
nnj – Nyangatom
Glottologturk1308[2]

The collective group name for these related peoples is Ateker.

Vocabulary
English Turkana
singular form		 Turkana
plural form
face ereetngiReetin
body akwaanngaWat
clothes eworungiWorui
food akimujngaMuja
tobacco etabangiTab
goat akinengaKinei
cattle aitengaAtuk
donkey esikiriangiSikiria
camel ekaalngiKaala
water ngakipingaKipi

Bibliography
  • Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (1983) The Turkana language. Dordrecht: Foris. ISBN 90-70176-83-1
  • Barrett, A. (1988) English–Turkana dictionary. Nairobi: MacMillan Kenya. ISBN 0-333-44577-5
  • Barrett, A. (1990) Turkana–English dictionary. London: MacMillan. ISBN 0-333-53654-1
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References
  1. Turkana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nyangatom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Turkana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
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