Pokot Language
Pokot or Pökoot may refer to: *the Pokot people *the Pokot language * ''Spoor'' (film), a 2017 Polish film See also * West Pokot County West Pokot County is a county of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kapenguria. The county covers an area of approximately 9,169.4 square kilometers and stretches a distance of 132 kilometers from North to South. West Pokot County is bordere ...

Pokot People
The Pokot people (also spelled ''Pökoot'') live in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region in Uganda. They form a section of the Kalenjin ethnic group and speak the Pökoot language, which is broadly similar to the related Marakwet, Nandi, Tuken and other members of the Kalenjin language group. History Origins Pokot identity formed in the Kerio Valley perhaps as early as the late 18th and certainly not later than the mid 19th century. It emerged from the assimilation of the Sirkwa era Chok by the Pokotozek section of the Maliri. Assimilation Early 20th century accounts of the Pokot identify two distinct branches of the community with the caveat that much as two ways of life are detailed, they were one people. Beech (1911) identified significant differences between agricultural and pastoral sections of the Pokot in; oaths, punishment for murder and homicide, punishment for assault, punishment for witchcraft, punis ...
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Pokot Language
Pokot or Pökoot may refer to: *the Pokot people *the Pokot language * ''Spoor'' (film), a 2017 Polish film See also * West Pokot County West Pokot County is a county of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kapenguria. The county covers an area of approximately 9,169.4 square kilometers and stretches a distance of 132 kilometers from North to South. West Pokot County is bordere ...

Spoor (film)
''Spoor'' ( pl, Pokot) is a 2017 Polish crime film directed by Agnieszka Holland, adapted from the novel ''Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'' by Olga Tokarczuk. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin, the film won the Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear). It was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The Polish-language title, ''Pokot'', is a hunting term that refers to the count of wild animals killed. The English title ''Spoor'' refers to the traces and tracks left behind by the hunted game. Plot The film is set in a remote mountainous region of the Kłodzko Valley in south-western Poland, where an eccentric elderly woman, Janina Duszejko, lives with her two dogs. Her dogs disappear one day while she is giving Nowina, a local woman, a ride to the store. She confronts her neighbour who she calls ...
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