Native to Kenya | Dialects Nyangatom | |
Region Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana Native speakers 990,000 (2009 census)
not counting Nyangatom Language family Nilo-Saharan?
Eastern Sudanic
Eastern Nilotic
Lotuxo–Teso
Teso–Turkana
Turkana
Turkana ISO 639-3 tuv (not counting Nyangatom) | ||
Turkana language sample
Turkana /tɜːrˈkɑːnə/ is the language of the Turkana people of Kenya, numbering about 340,000.
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 Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Teso–Turkana languages.
The collective group name for these related peoples is Ateker.
References
Turkana language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA