Markweta language

Markweta
Native to	Kenya
Ethnicity	Marakwet
Native speakers	180,000 (2009 census)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Nilotic Southern Nilotic Kalenjin Nandi–Markweta Markweta
Dialects	Endo (Northern) Sambirir (Southern)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`enb`
Glottolog	`mark1255`^[2]

Markweta (Markweeta) is a Kalenjin language of Kenya. The regional terms Endo and Sambirir (or the clan name Talai) have been used for northern and southern Markweta, but they are not distinct dialects.

References

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

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