Turkana language

Turkana
Turkana
ŋatùrk(w)anà
Native to	Kenya, Ethiopia
Region	Turkana
Ethnicity	Turkana people
Native speakers	990,000 (2009 census)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Kir–Abbaian? Nilotic Eastern Nilotic Ateker–Lotuko–Maa Ateker Turkanic Turkana; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Northern Turkana; Southern Turkana;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	; tuv – Turkana
Glottolog	turk1308

Turkana /tɜːrˈkɑːnə/ is the language of the Turkana people of Kenya and Ethiopia. It is 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.

The collective group name for these related peoples is Ateker.

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