Maasai (previously spelled Masai) or Maa (English: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/ MAH-sye; autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern...

native language is the Maasai language, a Nilotic language related to Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer. Except for some elders living in rural areas, most Maasai people...

Maasai may refer to: Maasai people Maasai language Maasai mythology MAASAI (band) Masai (disambiguation) Massai This disambiguation page lists articles...

afar: "Mara" means "spotted" in the Maa language because of the short bushy trees which dot the landscape. Maasai Mara is one of the wildlife conservation...

but they were later immersed in Maasai culture and adopted the Maa language and way of life. The Yaakunte language is today facing extinction but is...

territory of the Maasai. Akie is probably dying out because many of its speakers have shifted to, or are shifting to, Maasai language. Maguire (1948:10)...

"Serengeti" is often said to be derived from the word "seringit" in the Maasai language, Maa, meaning "endless plains".[dubious – discuss] This etymology does...

and the El Molo, former hunter-gatherers who spoke Cushitic languages, and the Mukogodo-Maasai (Yaaku), former bee-keepers and hunter-gatherers (Eastern...

However, the Mukogodo were later assimilated by the Maasai and adopted the Maa language. The Yaakunte language is today facing extinction but is undergoing a...

a moribund Nilotic language of Kenya. It is spoken by the hunter-gatherer Omotik people of the Great Rift Valley among the Maasai; most of the Omotik...

Lotuko language Dongotono language Ongamo–Maa Ongamo language Maa languages Maasai language (see also Mukogodo-Maasai) Camus language Samburu language (see...

paradigms: Tones are used to differentiate cases as well, as in Maasai language (a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania): Certain varieties of Chinese...

international hip hop and traditional Maasai music, represented by Maasai singer Merege. While Merege sings in maa (Maasai language), the other members of the group...

in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India Maasai people, an ethnic group in East Africa Maasai language, language of the Maasai ethnic group Masai (name), Kenyan...

means "God is gracious." Siana means "the plentiful springs" in the Maasai language. It is also a name used by Sikhs in India meaning "wise." The Bulgarian...

the Kikuyu language or from the Maasai language. It may relate to the Kikuyu word guthika, which means to bury. It also resembles the Maasai word sika...

The Datooga (Wamang'ati in Maasai language meaning enemy, a name adopted into swahili) are a Nilotic ethnic people group from Tanzania, located in Karatu...

his Maasai uncles who had stolen his father's cows from him. Masawahaba failed to pronounce the nickname of Nkisu meaning a bull in Maasai language, given...

(possibly) Meru Counties. The group spoke a common tongue related to the Maasai language, and typically herded cattle. The Loikop occasionally interacted with...

the district. Mateves means places where the fever tree grows in the Maasai language. Mateves ward is bordered by Musa ward to the northwest, Oltrumet ward...

Uganda, western Kenya, and northern Tanzania, it includes languages such as Turkana and Maasai. Bari-Kuku-Kakwa-Pojulu-Mundari-Nyangwara-Nyepo and others...

Jubba River. The river's name is derived from the local community's Maasai language, and means river of brown or muddy water. Downstream, the intermittent...

languages are Kanuri, Fur, Songhay, Nobiin and the widespread Nilotic family, which includes the Luo, Dinka and Maasai. Most Nilo-Saharan languages are...

Reimer Verlag 1982. ISBN 3-496-00698-6. Maa Language Project Embuku E Sayiata Too Ltung'ana Pooki Maasai-Samburu Anglican Prayer Book (1967), digitized...

million Nilotic Dholuo 5.0 million Kalenjin languages 4.6 million (Kipsigis 1.9 million, Nandi 940,000) Maasai 1.2 million (1.9 million including Tanzania)...

comes from the word "Olkeju-ado," which means "the Long River" in the Maasai language. The seasonal river named after the town runs from West to the East...

lesser flamingoes. The lake's name comes from the word for salty in the Maasai language. It is 1730 metres above sea level. "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved...

Maa language of the dominant Maasai tribe (including the Samburu) between 1925 and 1936. The variety of Maa they speak is called Mukogodo-Maasai. Old...

amongst the very few Europeans who had made it a point to learn the Maasai language. One of the restaurants inside the Nairobi Norfolk Hotel has been known...

of lexical similarity with Maasai, Samburu, and Camus. Speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language. An expansion of Ngasa speakers...