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Preferred term

saqSamburu  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Samburu is the Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language spoken by the Samburu in the highlands of northern Kenya. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). Samburu is closely related to Camus (88% to 94% lexical similarity; Camus is sometimes considered a Samburu dialect) and to the South Maa language Maasai (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word Samburu itself derives from the old Maa word saamburr for the leather bag the Samburu use.

Entry terms

  • Samburu language

ISO 639-3 code

  • saq

In other languages

  • Sambouroueg

    Breton

  • samburu

    Catalan

  • samburu

    Croatian

  • samburu

    Czech

  • samburu

    Danish

  • Samburu

    Dutch

  • samburu

    Estonian

  • Finnish

  • Samburun kieli
  • samburu

    French

  • Σαμπούρου

    Greek

  • סמבורו

    Hebrew

  • szamburu

    Hungarian

  • Samburu

    Indonesian

  • samburu

    Italian

  • サンブル語

    Japanese

  • 삼부루어

    Korean

  • ຊຳບູລູ

    Lao

  • samburu

    Latvian

  • samburų

    Lithuanian

  • самбуру

    Macedonian

  • samburu

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • samburu

    Polish

  • samburu

    Portuguese

  • samburu

    Romanian

  • самбуру

    Russian

  • Kisampur

    Samburu

  • samburu

    Slovak

  • samburu

    Spanish

  • Swedish

  • แซมบูรู

    Thai

  • Samburu

    Turkish

  • самбуру

    Ukrainian

  • Tiếng Samburu

    Vietnamese

  • Sambŵrw

    Welsh

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/saq

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