Turkana language
| Turkana | |
|---|---|
| Ng'aturk(w)ana | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana |
Native speakers | 1,013,000 (2007-2009)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tuv – Turkanannj – Nyangatom |
| Glottolog | turk1308 |
Turkana /tɜːrˈkɑːnə/[2] is the language of the Turkana people of Kenya. It is spoken in northwestern Kenya, primarily in Turkana County, which lies west of Lake Turkana. 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 South Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the South Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Ateker Languages.
The collective group name for these related peoples is Ateker.
Vocabulary
| English | Turkana singular form |
Turkana plural form |
|---|---|---|
| face | ereet | ngiReetin |
| body | akwaan | ngaWat |
| clothes | eworu | ngiWorui |
| food | akimuj | ngaMuja |
| tobacco | etaba | ngiTab |
| goat | akine | ngaKinei |
| cattle | aite | ngaAtuk |
| donkey | esikiria | ngiSikiria |
| camel | ekaal | ngiKaala |
| water | ngakipi | ngaKipi |
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
References
- ^ Turkana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Nyangatom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
External links
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