Samburu
Samburu is a Nilotic language spoken in Kenya.
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Samburu is a Maa language dialect spoken by Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). The Samburu dialect is closely related to the 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.
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Words in Samburu
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ltuNani* | |
| name | Nkarna* | |
| eye | NkoNu* | |
| ear | Nkeok* | |
| nose | Nkume* | |
| tooth | lalai* | |
| tongue | lNaTap* | |
| hand | Nkaina* | |
| blood | lodo | |
| bone | loito* | |
| skin | lToni* | |
| knee | NkuNu* | |
| breast | lkina* | |
| liver | mo5ua* | |
| water | nkare | |
| fire | Nkima* | |
| sun | ldama* | |
| star | lakira* | |
| stone | soit* | |
| mountain | ldo5o* | |
| tree | aibalaka5* | |
| leaf | mbeneyo* | |
| night | Nkawarie* | |
| dog | ldia* | |
| fish | suporei* | |
| louse | laTeyo* | |
| one | bo* | |
| two | are* | |
| I | nanu* | |
| you | iyye* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · samb1315 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · saq