• in Kenya. The Kipsigis people are the most numerous tribe of the Kalenjin in Kenya, accounting for 60% of all Kalenjin speakers. Kipsigis is closely related...
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  • Kipsigis may refer to: Kipsigis people, of Kenya Kipsigis language, a Nilotic language spoken by the Kipsigis people This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    eponym, Kipsigis. It is observed that the Kipsigis and another aboriginal group native to Kenya known as Ogiek have a merged identity. The Kipsigis are the...
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  • The Kalenjin languages are a family of a dozen Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. The term Kalenjin comes...
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  • Mijikenda/Giriama ca. 1 million Nilotic Dholuo 5.0 million Kalenjin languages 4.6 million (Kipsigis 1.9 million, Nandi 940,000) Maasai 1.2 (1.9 million including...
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    century. This is in reference to kerichek, the word for medicine in the Kipsigis language. Other theories have it that the town was named for a local medicine...
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  • Kalenjin dialect cluster, it is most closely related to such varieties as Kipsigis and Nandi. The Tugen is made up of two main sub-groups, Arror in the north...
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  • Kogoochinet-aab Kainaiik. Names are referred to as Kainaiik. The first name of the Kipsigis males is prefixed by the term 'Kip' and then added a suffix descriptive...
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  • italics. It is common in the language to use [ATR] distinctions to signal grammatical functions. For example, in Kipsigis, the word for ‘bird’ tàríit with...
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  • The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi, Arabic: كي-نوبي, romanized: kī-nūbī) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo,...
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  • and were able to point out lexical differences between their own language and Kipsigis. Ten years later, Gabriele Sommer (1992:389) classified the Sogoo...
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  • languages (Arabic: لُغَات نُوبِيّة, romanized: lughāt nūbiyyah) are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. In the past, Nubian languages...
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  • Lumbwa Treaty (category Kipsigis people)
    the Kipsigis led by Menya Araap Kisiara and the British East Africa administration. It was based on a cultural practice of oath taking in Kipsigis called...
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  • Kalenjin (see) Tatoga: Omotik, Datooga Kalenjin Elgon languages Kupsabiny Sabaot Nandi–Markweta Kipsigis Okiek Pökoot Tatogoa Datooga Omotik Proto-Kalenjin...
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  • Southern Burun is a Western Nilotic language of Sudan. It is a dialect continuum with Burun proper (Northern Burun), Mabaan/Ulu, and Jumjum (Arabic: جوم...
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  • Bari is the Nilotic language of the Karo people, spoken over large areas of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, across the northwest corner of Uganda...
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    have been divided into 11 culturally and linguistically related tribes: Kipsigis (1.9 million), Nandi (937,000), Pokots (778, 000), Sebei (350, 000), Sabaot...
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  • (Sabiny), or Sebei, is a Kalenjin language a Southern Nilotic language of eastern Uganda. Kupsabiny and a dozen other languages form the Southern Nilotic branch...
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    Masai) or Maa (English: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/; autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering...
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    (Barya) language is spoken by the Nara people in an area just to the north of Barentu in the Gash-Barka Region of western Eritrea. The language is often...
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  • Markwet (Markweeta) is a Kalenjin language of Kenya. The regional terms Endo and Sambirir (or the clan name Talai) have been used for northern and southern...
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  • Eastern Sudanic language of Sudan, one of three closely related languages in the area called "Daju" (the other two being the Daju Mongo language and the Sila...
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  • unified written grammar of Dinka. The language most closely related to Dinka is the Nuer language. The Luo languages are also closely related. The Dinka...
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  • Arap Koilege in 1895, after which he fled to the Kipsigis with his supporters, becoming the first Kipsigis Orgoiyot. Koitalel was appointed successor to...
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    The Daju languages are spoken in isolated pockets by the Daju people across a wide area of Sudan and Chad. In Sudan, they are spoken in parts of the regions...
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  • Omotik (Sawas) is a moribund Nilotic language of Kenya. It is spoken by the hunter-gatherer Omotik people of the Great Rift Valley among the Maasai; most...
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  • In early 20th century classification of African languages, Sudanic was a generic term for languages spoken in the Sahel belt, from Ethiopia in the east...
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  • Nyimang, also known as Ama, is an East Sudanic language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan by the Nyimang people who are a sub-group of the Nuba people...
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  • (also Garko, Kaak, Karme, Kithonirishe; autonym: Kakenbi) is a Hill Nubian language spoken in the northwestern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. It is...
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  • The dozen Luo, Lwo or Lwoian languages are spoken by the Luo peoples in an area ranging from southern Sudan to western Ethiopia to southern Kenya, with...
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