Concept information
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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