Turkana language

Turkana language

language
name=Turkana
nativename=Ng'aturk(w)ana
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
states=Kenya
region=Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana
speakers=340,000
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Eastern Nilotic
fam4=Lotuxo-Teso
fam5=Teso-Turkana
fam6=Turkana
iso2=ssa|iso3=tuv

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.

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 0-333-53654-1

External 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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