ISO 639-3 · tuvtuv
Nilo-Saharan family
Turkana
Turkana is a language of the Eastern Nilotic branch (Nilo-Saharan), spoken in Kenya. Wikidata describes it as “African language, spoken by the Turkana people”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tuv- Glottocode
turk1308- Family
- Nilo-Saharan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- Wikipedia
- 15 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
—scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Turkana |
|---|---|
| Also called | Turkana language |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Nilo-Saharan to Turkana
The branches above Turkana, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Kenya
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafepanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafeswhKiswahiliNiger–Congo · 98.3 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialormOromoAfroasiatic · 36 msomSomaliAfroasiatic · 16.2 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mkikGikuyuNiger–Congo · 6.6 m5 · DevelopingayhHadhrami ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.5 m6a · Vigorous