Tugen language

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Tugen
Spoken in: Kenya 
Region: West Central Kenya
Total speakers: around 200 000
Language family: Nilo-Saharan
 Eastern Sudanic
  Southern Nilotic
   Kalenjin languages
    Nandi-Markweta
     Nandi
      Tugen
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: ssa
ISO/FDIS 639-3: tuy
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

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.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Rottland, Franz (1982) Die Südnilotischen Sprachen: Beschreibung, Vergelichung und Rekonstruktion (Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik vol. 7). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
  • Ng'osos, David (1997) Tugen proverbs (ill. by Njeri Kahongo). Nairobi : Phoenix Publishers. ISBN 9966-47-179-0

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