Turkana language
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| Turkana Ng'aturk(w)ana |
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| Spoken in: | Kenya | |
| Region: | Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana | |
| Total speakers: | 340,000 | |
| Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic Eastern Nilotic Lotuxo-Teso Teso-Turkana Turkana Turkana |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ssa | |
| ISO 639-3: | tuv | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Turkana 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 Karamojong, Jie and Teso of Uganda, to Toposa spoken in the extreme southeast of Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Teso-Turkana languages.
[edit] Selected Vocabulary
| English | Turkana |
|---|---|
| face | ereet |
| body | akwan |
| clothes | eworu |
| food | akimuj |
| tobacco | etaba |
| goat | nganginei |
| cattle | ngaatuk |
| donkey | ngisikirya |
| camel | ngikaala |
| water | ngakipi |
[edit] 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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