Samburu language
| Samburu | |
|---|---|
| Sampur, ɔl Maa | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | Samburu district ofRift Valley Province |
| Ethnicity | Samburu |
Native speakers | 240,000 (2009 census)[1] (including Camus) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | saq |
| Glottolog | samb1315 |
Samburuis aMaa languagedialect spoken bySamburupastoralists in northernKenya.The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus).[when?]The Samburu dialect is closely related to theCamus 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 wordsaamburrfor a leather bag the Samburu use.
References
[edit]- ^SamburuatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
Further reading
[edit]- Rainer Vossen.The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions.Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1982.ISBN3-496-00698-6.
External links
[edit]- Maa Language Project
- Embuku E Sayiata Too Ltung'ana PookiMaasai-Samburu Anglican Prayer Book (1967), digitized by Richard Mammana
