Turkana language
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| Turkana (Ng'aturk(w)ana) | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Kenya |
| Region: | Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana |
| Total speakers: | 340,000 |
| Ranking: | Not in top 100 |
| Genetic classification: | Nilo-Saharan
Eastern Sudanic |
| Official status | |
| Official language of: | none |
| Regulated by: | none |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | n.a. |
| ISO 639-2 | n.a. |
| SIL | tuv |
| See also: Language – List of languages | |
The Turkana language is the language of the Turkana people of Kenya, numbering about 340,000. It is one of the Eastern Nilotic languages, and is closely related to Karimojong, Jie, and Teso of Uganda, to Toposa spoken in the extreme southeast of Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the Sudan/Ethiopia borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Teso-Turkana languages.
Bibliography
- Dimmendaal, Gerrit (1983) The Turkana language. Dordrecht: Foris. ISBN 9070176831
- Barrett, A. (1988) English-Turkana dictionary. Nairobi: MacMillan Kenya. ISBN 0333445775
- Barrett, A. (1990) Turkana-English dictionary. London: MacMillan. ISBN 0333536541
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