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The Turkana language of Kenya and Ethiopia is spoken by the Turkana people. Part of the Ateker Language cluster, Turkana is an Eastern Nilotic language related to Karamojong, Toposa, and Nyangotom.
This video of John speaking Turkana was recorded by Avi Kumar in Kenya. Turkana is an African languae widely spoken in northwestern Kenya, primarily in Turkana County, which lies west of Lake Turkana. It is one of the Eastern Nilotic languages, and is closely related to Karamojong, Jie and Teso of Uganda, to Toposa spoken in the extreme southeast of South Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the South Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Ateker Languages.
Ateker, or ŋaTekerin, is a common name for the closely related Jie, Karamojong, Turkana, Toposa, Nyangatom and Teso peoples and their languages. These ethnic groups inhabit an area across Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya. In the Turkana language, Ateker means a distinct group with related customs, laws and lifestyle and who share a common ancestry. Members of one Ateker have a common character of mutual respect for each other in their diversity. Each member group of Ateker occupies its own territory and exercises authority over its own land and people independent of each other, but there is nonetheless a degree of mutual intelligibility between the many languages that allows for trade and cooperation.
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The Turkana language of Kenya and Ethiopia is spoken by the Turkana people. Part of the Ateker Language cluster, Turkana is an Eastern Nilotic language related to Karamojong, Toposa, and Nyangotom.
This video of John speaking Turkana was recorded by Avi Kumar in Kenya. Turkana is an African languae widely spoken in northwestern Kenya, primarily in Turkana County, which lies west of Lake Turkana. It is one of the Eastern Nilotic languages, and is closely related to Karamojong, Jie and Teso of Uganda, to Toposa spoken in the extreme southeast of South Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the South Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Ateker Languages.
Ateker, or ŋaTekerin, is a common name for the closely related Jie, Karamojong, Turkana, Toposa, Nyangatom and Teso peoples and their languages. These ethnic groups inhabit an area across Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya. In the Turkana language, Ateker means a distinct group with related customs, laws and lifestyle and who share a common ancestry. Members of one Ateker have a common character of mutual respect for each other in their diversity. Each member group of Ateker occupies its own territory and exercises authority over its own land and people independent of each other, but there is nonetheless a degree of mutual intelligibility between the many languages that allows for trade and cooperation.
This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. To download a copy, please contact hello@wikitongues.org.
