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

  1. Tugen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tugen". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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