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词条 Samburu language
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{{Infobox language
|name=Samburu
|nativename=Sampur, ɔl Maa
|states=Kenya
|region=Samburu district of Rift Valley Province
|speakers={{sigfig|237,000|2}}
|date=2009 census
|ref=e18
|speakers2= (including Camus)
|familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
|fam2=Eastern Saharan
|fam3=Eastern Nilotic
|fam4=Lotuxo–Teso
|fam5=Lotuxo–Maa
|fam6=Maa
|iso3=saq
|glotto=samb1315
|glottorefname=Samburu
|dia1=Camus
}}

Samburu is a Maa language dialect spoken by Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya. The Samburu number about 128,000 (or 147,000 including the Camus/Chamus).{{when|date=April 2012}} The Samburu dialect is closely related to Camus dialect (88% to 94% lexical similarity) and to the South Maasai dialects (77% to 89% lexical similarity). The word "Samburu" itself may derive from the Maa word saamburr for a leather bag the Samburu use.

References

See also

  • Rainer Vossen. The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 1982. {{ISBN|3-496-00698-6}}.

External links

  • Maa Language Project
  • Embuku E Sayiata Too Ltung'ana Pooki Maasai-Samburu Anglican Prayer Book (1967), digitized by Richard Mammana
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2 : Languages of Kenya|Maa languages

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