Pokoot
| Pokoot | ||
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Spoken in |
Kenya , Uganda | |
| speaker | Total: approx. 264,000 (as of 1994) | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Pökoot (also Pokot , Päkot , Pökot and - - in older literature Suk ) is a western Kenya (West Pokot and Baringo -Distrikt) and eastern Uganda (District Karamoja ) from the ethnic group of Pokot spoken südnilotische Kalenjin language.
In 1994 the SIL put the number of speakers at 264,000, while the only slightly more recent estimate (Schladt 1997) assumes 150,000 speakers - probably based on Rottland (1982), who estimated the number of speakers at a little more than 115,000.
The following languages are spoken around the distribution area of Pökoot: to the north the East Nilotic language Ngakaramojong , to the northeast the East Nilotic language Turkana , to the east the East Nilotic languages Maa (including Chamus ) and to the south the South Nilotic Kalendjin languages Tugen and Markweta , which are significantly influenced by the Pökoot.
literature
- Mathias Schladt: Cognitive structures of body part vocabularies in Kenyan languages . In: University of Cologne, Institute for African Studies (Hrsg.): Africanist monographs . 8, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-929777-07-X , pp. 40-42
- Franz Rottland: The South Nilotic languages: description, comparison and reconstruction . In: Dietrich Reimer (Ed.): Cologne contributions to African studies . 7, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3496001623 , pp. 26, 138-139