Nilotic · East Africa

Turkana

Not endangered

Turkana is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyNilotic
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3tuv
Glottocodeturk1308

Spoken in Ethiopia · Kenya · South Sudan · Uganda

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Nilotic's family tree with Turkana.

  1. Karamojong

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  2. Nyangatom

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  3. Toposa

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  4. Teso

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  5. Dongotono

    Threatened
    Wordlist or less

  6. Lango-Logire-Logir

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  7. Lokoya

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  8. Lopit

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

Reference data for Turkana from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)