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Rendille language

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Native to
  
Kenya

Native speakers
  
60,000 (2009 census)

Glottolog
  
rend1243

Region
  
Eastern Province

ISO 639-3
  
rel

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Rendille–Boni Rendille

Rendille (also known as Rendile, Randile) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Rendille people inhabiting northern Kenya. It is part of the family's Cushitic branch.

The Ariaal sub-group of the Rendille, who are of mixed Nilotic and Cushitic descent, speak the Nilo-Saharan Samburu language of the Samburu Nilotes near whom they live.

References

Rendille language Wikipedia