Yaaku language

Yaaku language

language
name=Yaaku
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Kenya
region=Laikipia District
speakers=50 (1983)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Cushitic
iso3=muu

Yaaku (also known as Mukogodo, Mogogodo, Mukoquodo, Siegu, Yaakua, Ndorobo) is an endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Kenya. It is Cushitic, but its position within that family in unclear. Speakers are all older adults. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=muu Ethnologue entry for Yaaku]
* Brenzinger, Matthias (1992) 'Lexical retention in language shift', in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.) "Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa". Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 213–254.
* Heine, Bernd (1974/75) 'Notes on the Yaaku language (Kenya)', "Afrika und Übersee", 58(1), 27–61; 58(2), 119–138.
* Heine, Bernd & Brenzinger, Matthias (1988) 'Notes on the Mukogodo dialect of Maasai', "Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere", 14, 97–131.
* Mous, Maarten & Stoks, Hans & Blonk, Matthijs (2005) 'De laatste sprekers' [the last speakers] , in "Indigo, tijdschrift over inheemse volken" [journal on indigenous peoples] , pp. 9–13.
* Sommer, Gabriele (1992) 'A survey on language death in Africa', in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.) "Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa". Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 301–417.


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