Nilotic · East Africa

Samburu

Not endangered

Samburu is documented so far only to the level of grammar sketch.

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FamilyNilotic
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationGrammar sketch
ISO 639-3saq
Glottocodesamb1315

Spoken in Kenya

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Nilotic's family tree with Samburu.

  1. Masai

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  2. Ngasa

    Extinct
    Grammar sketch

  3. Dongotono

    Threatened
    Wordlist or less

  4. Lango-Logire-Logir

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  5. Lokoya

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  6. Lopit

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  7. Okolie

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  8. Otuho

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

Reference data for Samburu from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)