Okiek
Akiek; Akie; Ogiek; "Ndorobo"; Kinare;
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Okiek (Ogiek) languag
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2008
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Tanzania, Kenya
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Various sources cited by Sommer (1992) suggest anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand speakers, and that, especially among the villages, younger people are more fluent in Maasai or Swahili than Akie.
1992
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Arusha Region, Tanzania
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"Makami, Kibaya to Ruvu River... [and] the southern part of the Maasai Steppe, exact extent unknown, roughly (east) Handeni/Ruvu River across to around Makami, then somewhat further west, then south to somehwere south of Kibaya." (Roderic Hall Blackburn. n.d. East African Hunter-Gatherers: a survey. [Unpublished material.])
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"Makami, Kibaya to Ruvu River... [and] the southern part of the Maasai Steppe, exact extent unknown, roughly (east) Handeni/Ruvu River across to around Makami, then somewhat further west, then south to somehwere south of Kibaya." (Roderic Hall Blackburn. n.d. East African Hunter-Gatherers: a survey. [Unpublished material.])
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"Probably dying out, i.e. Akie is being replaced by Maasai (accompanied by the process of changing their subsistence base from hunting-gathering to agriculture)."
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"A small number"
2007
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"The so-called Akiek of Kinare in Kenya now speak Kikuyu as a first language; there may still be a few rememberers left."
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2010
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"Sie sebst benutzten die Sprache ihrer Eltern nicht mehr, konnten aber auf Verlangen ein Vokabular und einige Sätze aus der Erinnerung hervorholen."
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"Indem ich den Hinweisen von Lambert (1950) folgte, fand ich...einige Männer, die mit Kikuyu-Frauen verheiratet waren, in Kikuyu-Gemeinschaften lebten und generall als Kikuyu galten."
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"The minority languages of Kenya are under severe pressure from the influx of outsiders into traditional regions."
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42,000 in Kenya (2006)
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- Forging unions and negotiating ambivalence: personhood and complex agency in Okiek marriage arrangementKratz, Corinne. 2000. "Forging Unions and Negotiating Ambivalence: Personhood and Complex Agency in Okiek Marriage Arrangement." In African philosophy as cultural inquiry, edited by Ivan Karp and Dismas A. Masolo. Indiana Univ. Press.
- Ethnic Interaction, Economic Diversification and Language Use: A Report on Research with Kaplelach and Kipchornwonek OkiekKratz, Corinne A. 1986. "Ethnic Interaction, Economic Diversification and Language Use: A Report On Research with Kaplelach and Kipchornwonek Okiek." In Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, 7 , no. 2: 189-226.
- Modern Hunters: Some Account of the Kamelilo-Kapchepkendi Dorobo (Okiek) of Kenya ColonyHuntingford, G. W. B. 1929. "Modern Hunters: Some Account of the Kamelilo-Kapchepkendi Dorobo (Okiek) of Kenya Colony." In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 59: 333-378.
- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- ELF Grant Abstract: Working to Save Ogiek and Sengwer of KenyaKiplangat, Cheruiyot. 2003. "ELF Grant Abstract: Working To Save Ogiek and Sengwer of Kenya." Online: http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/ll_projects_2003.php.http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/ll_projects_2003.php
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