Maasai language

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Phonology

Implosive consonants Tone Semantic Ingressive Tʃ

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Morphosyntax

Verb–subject–object Prepositions Relational nouns Noun phrases Demonstrative

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Usage

Swahili East Africa English Lingua franca Nyerere

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Overview

Autonym Eastern Nilotic Kenya Tanzania Maasai people

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Ethnicity: Maasai
Glottolog: masa1300
ISO 639-2: mas
ISO 639-3: mas
Language family: Eastern SudanicSouthern EasternNiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai · Southern EasternNiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai · NiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai · Eastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai · Ateker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai
Native speakers: 1.5 million (2009 census – 2016)

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Overview

Autonym Endonym
Eastern Nilotic Eastern Nilotic languages
Kenya
Tanzania
Maasai people
Maa varieties Maa languages
Samburu Samburu language
Samburu people
Chamus Chamus language
Lake Baringo
Parakuyu Kwavi people
Advanced tongue root Advanced and retracted tongue root
Vowel harmony

Phonology

Implosive consonants Implosive consonant
Tone Tone (linguistics)
Semantic Semantics
Ingressive Ingressive sound
Tʃ Voiceless postalveolar affricate
Complementary distribution
Latin script
IPA International Phonetic Alphabet
Orthography
Digraphs Digraph (orthography)
Diacritics Diacritic

Morphosyntax

Oral literature

Alfred Claud Hollis

Usage

Swahili Swahili language
East Africa
English English language
Lingua franca
Nyerere Julius Nyerere

Bibliography

Doi Doi (identifier)
ISBN ISBN (identifier)
Hdl Hdl (identifier)
OCLC OCLC (identifier)

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Nodes48

Edges47

Triples123

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.041667

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Maasai language

Top relations

related to Bibliography · 63

Maasai language → African Studies, Afrikanistik, Alexander, Andrason, Archibald, Arusa, Asian, Berlin, Cape Town, CASAS, Co, Cracoviensis, Dative, December, Dietrich Reimer, Frans, Green, Ilchamus, ISBN, Karani

related to Oral literature · 18

Maasai language → Alfred Claud Hollis, Also, Coals, Eata, Eitu-kidol, Ekwenikye, English, Etejo, Folklore, Here, In, It, Maasai, Mme, The, The Masai, Their Language, There

related to Usage · 16

Maasai language → Although, East Africa, English, European, Fewer, However, In Tanzania, Maa, Maasai, President Nyerere, Specifically, Swahili, Tanzania, The, The Maasai, With

related to Morphosyntax · 10

Maasai language → Less, Most, Noun, Other, The Maasai, Thus, Topical, Verb, What, Word

Language family · 8

Maasai language → Ateker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai, Eastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai, Eastern SudanicSouthern EasternNiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai, Lotuko–MaaMaaMaasai, MaaMaasai, Maasai, NiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai, Southern EasternNiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai

Ethnicity · 1

Maasai language → Maasai

Glottolog · 1

Maasai language → masa1300

ISO 639-2 · 1

Maasai language → mas

ISO 639-3 · 1

Maasai language → mas

Native speakers · 1

Maasai language → 1.5 million (2009 census – 2016)

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Important terminology

maasai language maa tanzania people kenya english noun vowels ɔl samburu parakuyu tone one gender would karani michael spoken vowel

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Maasai language	Ethnicity	Maasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Glottolog	masa1300	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	ISO 639-2	mas	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	ISO 639-3	mas	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	Eastern SudanicSouthern EasternNiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	Southern EasternNiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	NiloticEastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	Eastern NiloticAteker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	Ateker–Lotuko–MaaLotuko–MaaMaaMaasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	Lotuko–MaaMaaMaasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	MaaMaasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Language family	Maasai	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Native speakers	1.5 million (2009 census – 2016)	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Native to	Kenya, Tanzania	1.00	infobox
Maasai language	Region	Central and Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania	1.00	infobox

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