Turkana language
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| Turkana | |
|---|---|
| Ng'aturk(w)ana | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana |
Native speakers |
990,000 (2009 census)[1] not counting Nyangatom |
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Nilo-Saharan?
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tuv (not counting Nyangatom) |
Turkana /tɜrˈkɑːnə/[2] 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.
The collective group name for these related group is Ateker.
Selected Vocabulary
| English | Turkana singular form |
Turkana plural form |
|---|---|---|
| face | ereet | ngiReetin |
| body | akwaan | ngaWat |
| clothes | eworu | ngiWorui |
| food | akimuj | ngaMuja |
| tobacco | etaba | ngiTab |
| goat | akine | ngaKinei |
| cattle | aite | ngaAtuk |
| donkey | esikiria | ngiSikiria |
| camel | ekaal | ngiKaala |
| water | (no sing.) | ngaKipi |
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
References
- ↑ Turkana reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
External links
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