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Preferred term

saqSamburu  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Samburu is the Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language spoken by the Samburu in the highlands of northern Kenya. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). Samburu is closely related to Camus (88% to 94% lexical similarity; Camus is sometimes considered a Samburu dialect) and to the South Maa language Maasai (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word Samburu itself derives from the old Maa word saamburr for the leather bag the Samburu use.

Entry terms

  • Samburu language

ISO 639-3 code

  • saq

Notation

  • saq

In other languages

  • samburu

    French

  • samburu

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • samburu

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/saq

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