Rendille (also known as Rendile, Randile) is an

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...

language spoken by the Rendille people inhabiting northern

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. It is part of the family's

Cushitic The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As o ...

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Ariaal The Ariaal are northern Kenyan pastoralists. They claim descent from cattle-owning Samburu who captured significant herds of camels and learned how to manage them from their eastern neighbours, the Rendille. This led them to adopt the Rendille ...

sub-group of the Rendille, who are of mixed

Nilotic The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. Among these are the Burun-sp ...

and Cushitic descent, speak the

Nilo-Saharan The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. T ...

Samburu language Samburu is a Maa language dialect spoken by Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital ...

of the Samburu Nilotes near whom they live.

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Notes

References

* Antoinette Oomen. 1981. "Gender and Plurality in Rendille," ''Afroasiatic Linguistics'' 8:35-75. * Steve Pillinger & Letiwa Galboran. 1999. ''A Rendille Dictionary, Including a Grammatical Outline and an English-Rendille Index''. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 14. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. * Günther Schlee. 1978. ''Sprachliche Studien zum Rendille''. Hamburger Philologische Studien 46. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. * Ronald J. Sim. 1981. "Morphophonemics of the Verb in Rendille," ''Afroasiatic Linguistics'' 8:1-33. Omo–Tana languages Languages of Kenya {{Kenya-stub