Notes
- ↑ Rendille at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- 1 2 Ethnologue - Rendille
- ↑ Parris, Ronald G. (1994). Rendille . Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 13. ISBN 0823917630.
| Rendille | |
|---|---|
| Afi Renꞌdille | |
| Native to | Kenya |
| Region | Eastern Province |
| Ethnicity | Rendille |
Native speakers | 96,000 (2019 census) [1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rel |
| Glottolog | rend1243 |
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. [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. [2] [3]
| Labial | Dental/ alveolar | Retroflex | Post-alv./ Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | t̪ | tɕ | k | ( q ) | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | dʑ | g | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | x | ħ ~ ʕ | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
| Glide | w | j | |||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
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