Camus people

Camus people

The Camus (sometimes spelled Chamus or Tiamus, also known as Njemps), are a Maa people living south and southeast of Lake Baringo, Kenya. They number about 19,000 and are closely related to the Samburu living more to the north-east in the Rift Valley Province. Their language is one of the Eastern Nilotic Maa languages, closely related to the Samburu language (between 89% and 94% lexical similarity), to the point of it being considered a Samburu dialect by some. Together, Samburu and Camus form the northern division of the Maa languages.

References

*Heine, Bernd (1980) "The Non-Bantu languages of Kenya." (Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya 2.) Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
*Vossen, Rainer (1982) "The Eastern Nilotes. Linguistic and historical reconstructions" (Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 9). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=saq Ethnologue report on Camus (as a Samburu dialect)] .
* [http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/nilo-saharan/africa/saq/view?searchterm=saq Samburu and Camus on The Rosetta Project]


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