Tugen language
| Tugen | |
|---|---|
| North Tugen | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | West Central Kenya |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2009 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tuy |
| Glottolog |
tuge1241[2] |
Tugen is the language spoken by the about 200,000 Tugen people of the broader Kalenjin group in Kenya. As a part of the Kalenjin dialect cluster, it is most closely related to such varieties as Kipsigis and Nandi.
The Tugen is made up of three main sub-groups, the Lembus to the south, the Arror in the north and the Samor in the central parts of Baringo district, Kenya.
References
- ↑ Tugen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tugen". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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