- Turkana language
language
name=Turkana
nativename=Ng'aturk(w)ana
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
states=Kenya
region=Northwest Kenya, west ofLake Turkana
speakers=340,000
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Eastern Nilotic
fam4=Lotuxo-Teso
fam5=Teso-Turkana
fam6=Turkana
iso2=ssa|iso3=tuvTurkana is the language of the
Turkana people ofKenya , numbering about 340,000. It is one of theEastern Nilotic languages , and is closely related to Karamojong, Jie and Teso of Uganda, to Toposa spoken in the extreme southeast of Sudan, and toNyangatom in the Sudan/EthiopiaOmo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster ofTeso-Turkana languages .elected Vocabulary
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 0-333-53654-1External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tuv Ethnologue report on Turkana]
* [http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/TesoTurkana PanAfriL10n page on Teso & Turkana]
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