From Elmolo to Gura Pau: A remembered Cushitic language of Lake Turkana and its possible revitalization
This article discusses the “extinct” Elmolo language of the Lake Turkana area in Kenya. A surprisingly large amount of the vocabulary of this Cushitic language (whose community shifted to Nilotic Samburu in the 20th century), far from being lost and forgotten, is still known and is, to a certain ext...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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LibraryPress@UF
2015-06-01
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Series: | Studies in African Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107258 |