Turkana (language)
Turkana | ||
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Spoken in |
Kenya | |
speaker | 365.163 | |
Linguistic classification |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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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.