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Elgon
Sebei
Ethnicity
Sebei people
Geographic distribution
western Kenya, eastern Uganda
Linguistic classification
Nilo-Saharan?
Eastern Sudanic
Nilotic
Southern Nilotic
Kalenjin
Elgon
Subdivisions
Kupsabiny
Sabaot
Glottolog
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The Elgon languages are languages of the Southern Nilotic Kalenjin family spoken in the Mount Elgon area in western Kenya and eastern Uganda. According to the Ethnologue, there are two main Elgon languages: Kupsabiny (spoken by about 120,000 people) and Sabaot (spoken by about 134,000 people). Sabaot is a common name assumed by various related peoples, including the Kony, Pok, and Bong'om (after whom the Western Kenyan town of Bungoma is named), whose respective languages are considered separate languages by Rottland (1982).
The Terik people, living east of Lake Victoria wedged in between the Nandi, Luo and Luyia, spoke or speak a dialect closely related to Pok and Bong'om.[1] According to their own oral history they are "people of Mount Elgon"; this is confirmed by Bong'om traditions that "the people who later called themselves Terik were still Bong'om when they left Elgon and moved away in a southern direction" (Roeder 1986:142). Recently many of them have assimilated to neighbouring Nandi, leading to a decline in the use of the Terik language in favor of Nandi. Although they live in two countries, both groups speak the same language but with slightly different pronunciations.
^Heine, Bernd (1992), "Dialect death: The case of Terik", Language Death, DE GRUYTER, pp. 255–272, doi:10.1515/9783110870602.255, ISBN 978-3-11-087060-2
The Elgonlanguages are languages of the Southern Nilotic Kalenjin family spoken in the Mount Elgon area in western Kenya and eastern Uganda. According...
Mountain Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu and west of Kitale. The mountain's highest point, named...
along the border with Kenya, including Pökoot and the Elgonlanguages near Kupsabiny. Kuliak languages Ik and Soo are spoken in northeast Uganda. Lugbara...
Mount Elgon). They form a division of the larger Nilotic language family, along with the Western Nilotic languages and the Eastern Nilotic languages. The...
Terik (Nyang’ori) is a Kalenjin language of Kenya. The language of the Terik is closely related to the Elgonlanguages Pok and especially Bong'om. Part...
Chemorongit Mountains, and Mount Elgon. There is only one article containing any original research on the language, Wilson (1970), which only a handful...
languages (Arabic: لُغَات نُوبِيّة, romanized: lughāt nūbiyyah) are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. In the past, Nubian languages...
Masaba is the local name of Mount Elgon and the name of the son of the ancestor of the Gisu tribe. Like other Bantu languages, Lumasaba nouns are divided into...
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Oropoi) were the aboriginal inhabitants of much of Karamoja in Uganda, Mt. Elgon area and West Pokot, Trans Nzoia and Turkana regions in Kenya. Their descendants...
identity they might be considered a single language.[citation needed] The time depth of the division of the Luo languages is moderate, perhaps close to two millennia...
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...
the Southern Eastern Sudanic languages, which have an /n/. Nyima has yet to be conclusively linked to the other languages, and would appear to be the closest...
The Nile-Nubian languages were the languages of the Christian Nubian kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria and Alodia. The other Nubian languages are found hundreds...
Incubator Kitap Kwakwaset The Book of Common Prayer in Bari (1953) https://web.archive.org/web/20090215100524/http://www.openroad.net.au/languages/african/...
possessive relation. Kipsigis language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator ^ See Kalenjin languages and Nandi–Markweta languages for a clarification of...
Richard T. 1970. The Southern Luo Languages: A Glottochronological Reconstruction. Journal of African Languages 9: 1-18. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel...
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they are spoken in Wadai. The Daju languages belong to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan. The Daju languages are sub-classified as follows, following...
n Sudanic, En Sudanic or Kir–Abbaian languages form one of two primary divisions of the Eastern Sudanic languages in the classification of Bender (2000)...
"Arabic-based pidgins and creoles". In Thomason, S.G. (ed.). Contact languages: A wider perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 125–172. Wellens...
history of the language. Both the Dinka and the Nuer agreed that their languages were so different that they could never share written languages, but they...
Nandi tribe, came; From Elgon & Lumbwa Kipoiis Kipamwi Kipkenda Kipiegen From Lo-'sekelae Masai Kipkoiitim (also partly from Elgon) Talai, the medicine men's...
speak a language called Kupsabiny. This is linked to the Kalenjin dialect spoken by smaller groups that have settled on the slopes of Mount Elgon. The Sebei's...
The Gisu people, or Bamasaba people of Elgon, are a Bantu tribe and Bantu-speaking ethnic group of the Masaba people in eastern Uganda, closely related...
formerly the Rift Valley Province in Kenya and the Eastern slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda. They number 6,358,113 individuals per the Kenyan 2019 census...
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