Samburu is a
Maa language dialect spoken by
Samburu pastoralists in northern
Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...
. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus). The Samburu dialect is closely related to the
Camus dialect (88% to 94% lexical similarity) and to the South Maasai dialects (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word "Samburu" itself may derive from the Maa word ''saamburr'' for a leather bag the Samburu use.
Phonology
References
Further reading
*
Rainer Vossen. ''The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions''. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1982. .
External links
Maa Language ProjectEmbuku E Sayiata Too Ltung'ana Pooki
Maasai-Samburu Anglican Prayer Book (1967), digitized by Richard Mammana
Languages of Kenya
Maa languages
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