Samburu is a
Maa language
Maasai (previously spelled ''Masai'') or Maa (; autonym: ''ɔl Maa'') is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 800,000. It is closely related to the other Maa varieti ...
dialect spoken by
Samburu pastoralists in northern
Kenya
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. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). The Samburu dialect is closely related to
Camus dialect (88% to 94% lexical similarity) and to the South Maasai dialects (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word "Samburu" itself may derive from the Maa word ''saamburr'' for a leather bag the Samburu use.
References
Further reading
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Rainer Vossen
Rainer Vossen (German: Rainer Voßen; born December 6, 1951 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German linguist and Africanist. His research interests include the historical linguistics of Nilotic languages and Khoisan languages.
Biography
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. ''The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions''. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1982. .
External links
Maa Language ProjectEmbuku E Sayiata Too Ltung'ana Pooki
Maasai-Samburu Anglican Prayer Book (1967), digitized by Richard Mammana
Languages of Kenya
Maa languages
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