Turkana (language)

Turkana
Spoken in	Kenya
speaker	365.163
Linguistic ; classification	Nilosaharan East Sudan languages Nilotic languages East Nilotic languages Teso Turkana languages Turkana ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	ssa
ISO 639-3	tuv

Turkana is the language of the Turkana people around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya .

It belongs to the East Nilotic language group. The Nilotic languages, in turn, belong to the East Sudan language branch within the Nilo-Saharan language family .

literature

Anthony J. Barrett: Turkana-English dictionary . Macmillan Education, London 1990.
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: The Turkana language . Foris, Dordrecht 1983.