Rendille language

Rendille (also known as Rendile, Randile) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Rendille people inhabiting northern Kenya. It is part of the family's Cushitic branch.[3]

Rendille
Native toKenya
RegionEastern Province
Native speakers
60,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3rel
Glottologrend1243[2]

The Ariaal sub-group of the Rendille, who are of mixed Nilotic and Cushitic descent, speak the Nilo-Saharan Samburu language of the Samburu Nilotes near whom they live.[3][4]

Phonology

Consonants
LabialDental–alveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Voiceless plosivetck
Voiced plosivebdɟg
Fricativefsxh ~ ħ ~ ʔ
Laterall
Trillr
Nasalmn
Glidewj

Vowels
FrontBack
Closeiu
Near-closeɪʊ
Close-mideo
Open-midɛɔ
Openaɑ

Notes
  1. Rendille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rendille". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Ethnologue - Rendille
  4. Parris, Ronald G. (1994). Rendille. Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 13. ISBN 0823917630.

References
  • Antoinette Oomen. 1981. "Gender and Plurality in Rendille," Afroasiatic Linguistics 8:35-75.
  • Steve Pillinger & Letiwa Galboran. 1999. A Rendille Dictionary, Including a Grammatical Outline and an English-Rendille Index. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 14. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  • Günther Schlee. 1978. Sprachliche Studien zum Rendille. Hamburger Philologische Studien 46. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
  • Ronald J. Sim. 1981. "Morphophonemics of the Verb in Rendille," Afroasiatic Linguistics 8:1-33.


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