Rendille language

Rendille
Native to Kenya
Region Eastern Province
Native speakers
 60,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rel
Glottolog rend1243[2]

Rendille (also known as Rendile, Randile) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Rendille people inhabiting northern Kenya. It is part of the family's Cushitic branch.[3]

The Ariaal sub-group of the Rendille, who are of mixed Nilotic and Cushitic descent, speak the Nilo-Saharan Samburu language of the Samburu Nilotes near whom they live.[3][4]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental–alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Voiceless plosive t c k
Voiced plosive b d ɟ g
Fricative f s x h ~ ħ ~ ʔ
Lateral l
Trill r
Nasal m n
Glide w j

Vowels

Front Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ ʊ
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a ɑ

Notes

  1. ↑ Rendille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Rendille". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Ethnologue - Rendille
  4. ↑ Parris, Ronald G. (1994). Rendille. Rosen Publishing Group. p. 13. ISBN 0823917630.

References


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