Glottolog 5.2 - Samburu

Spoken L1 Language: Samburu

Classification

▼Nilotic (56)

Comments on subclassification

Vossen, Rainer 1982

Endangerment

AES status:: not endangered
Source:: David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2025
Comment:: Samburu (saq-saq) = 5 (Developing).

Glottocode: samb1315
ISO 639-3: saq

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Alternative names

lexvo:: Sambouroueg [br]; Samburu [en]; Samburu language [en]; Samburun kieli [fi]
multitree:: Burkeneji; E Lokop; Lokop; Nkutuk; Sambur; Samburu; Sampur

Countries

Kenya [KE]

References ⇫

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Name	Title	Year	Pages	Doctype	Provider

Heine, Bernd 1980	Camus, a Maa dialect	1980	42	grammar_sketch	eballiso2009, hh
Sim, Ronald J. 1980	A sociolinguistic profile of Maasai-Samburu-Ilchamus languages	1980	128	socling, grammar_sketch	hh, mpieva, sil16
Clarke, W.A.W. 1935	Notes on the Samburu: sections of tribes and clans, age-grades, and Lownok and Laigwenak	1935		grammar_sketch	eballiso2009
Heine, Bernd 1982	African noun class systems	1982	28	specific_feature	cldf, eballiso2009, guldemann, hh, langsci, seifart, weball
Lentete, Saitewua Samuel 2016	Some aspects of the Ilchamus phonology	2016	78	phonology	hh
Dahlbacka, Anna 2014	A Phonological Description of the Samburu Language	2014	70	phonology	hh
Wellby, Montagu Sinclair 1901	'Twixt Sirdar & Menelik; an account of a year's expedition from Zeila to Cairo through unknown Abyssinia	1901	448	overview, wordlist	hh
Vossen, Rainer 1982	The Eastern Nilotes	1982	512	overview, comparative, wordlist	hh
Goetting, Helmut 1984	Determination list of plants collected from Rift Valley	1984		wordlist	eballiso2009, weball
Kokwaro, John O. and D. J. Herlocker 1982	A check-list of botanical Samburu and Rendille names of plants of the 'IPAL' study area, Marsabit District, Kenya	1982		wordlist	eballiso2009, weball
Sim, Ronald J. 1980	A sociolinguistic profile of Maasai-Samburu-Iichamus languages	1980	124	comparative	eballiso2009, weball
Ngure, Kenneth 2012	From Rendille to Samburu: A Language Shift Involving Two Mutually Unintelligible Languages of Northern Kenya	2012	322	socling	hh
Heine, Bernd and Ingo Heine and Christa König 1988	Plant concepts and plant use: an ethnobotanical survey of the semi-arid and arid lands of East Africa, part V: plants of the Samburu (Kenya)	1988	286	overview	eballiso2009, weball
Spencer, Paul 1961	A survey of the Samburu and Rendille tribes of northern Kenya	1961		overview	eballiso2009
Fumagalli, Carl Tarcisio 1977	A diachronic study of change and sociocultural processes among the pastoral nomadic Samburu of Kenya, 1900-1975	1977	404	ethnographic	eballiso2009, hh
Holtzman, Jon 2017	Killing your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond	2017	218	ethnographic	hh
Chanler, W. A. 1896	Through Jungle and Desert: Travels in East Africa	1896	568	ethnographic	eballiso2009, hh
Heine, Bernd and Heine, Ingo 1988	Plant concepts and plant use: an ethnobotanical survey of the semi-arid and arid lands of East Africa. Part 1: plants of the Chamus (Kenya)	1988	103	ethnographic	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Heine, Bernd and König, Christa 1987	On the taxonomic status of folk botanic categories among the Samburu	1987	22	ethnographic	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Arensen, Jonathan E. 1983	Sticks and straw: Comparative house forms in southern Sudan and northern Kenya	1983	145	ethnographic	sil16
Spencer, P. 1965	The Samburu	1965		ethnographic	cldf
Spencer, Paul 1965	The Samburu: a study of gerontocracy in a nomadic society	1965		ethnographic	eballiso2009
Webster, Eric J. 1944	The Boran, Rendille, and Samburu: nomadic tribes of the northern frontier district	1944		ethnographic	eballiso2009
Fazan, S.H. 1933	The Samburu question	1933	69		eballiso2009
Fratkin, Elliot M. 1996	Traditional medicine and concepts of healing among Samburu pastoralists of Kenya	1996	35		eballiso2009
Bader, H.E. 1933	Memorandum on the Samburu	1933	21		eballiso2009
Eastman, Carol M. 1988	Aspects of an African constructed environment: language use and the nomadic process	1988	16		eballiso2009, weball
Tate, Harry R. 1904	Nairobi to Samburu and the Rendille	1904	12		eballiso2009
Carson, J.B. 1946	Among the Samburu	1946	4		eballiso2009
Cronk, Lee and Dickson, D. Bruce 2001	Public and hidden transcripts in the East African Highlands: a comment on Smith (1998)	2001	9		eballiso2009
Magor, Thomasin 1994	Die Samburu: einer der letzten Kriegerstämme Afrikas	1994			eballiso2009
Holsteen, Melbourne Edward 1982	Continuity and change in Samburu education	1982			eballiso2009
Hjort-af-Ornas, Anders 1981	Ethnic transformation, dependency and change: the IlGira Samburu of northern Kenya	1981			eballiso2009

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