El Molo
Elmolo; Fura-Pawa; Ldes; Dehes; "Ndorobo";
Afro-Asiatic; Cushitic; Lowland East Cushitic
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"The Elmolo are a small community of fishers living in two settlements along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya. Although long considered “the smallest tribe of Kenya” and almost onthe verge of extinction, the Elmolo have actually been increasing in recent years: they number today approximately 700... The Elmolo shifted from an East Cushitic language we call Elmolo (ISO 639 code: elo) to their present Samburu during the first half of the 20th century... According to my informants (2010), the last 'good' speaker of Cushitic Elmolo, Kaayo, died in 1999."
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"A minority of the Elmolo lives in the Division administrative centre of Loiyangalani, but the overwhelming majority inhabits two villages: Layieni (6 km.s North of Loiyangalani)... and Komote (13 km.s North of Loiyangalani)... Other Elmolo settle for at least a part of the year further North of Komote, especially in Palo (25 km.s North of Loiyangalani), where they fish and attend to the goats (no grazing is possible in Layieni and Komote). Finally, a section of the Elmolo is settled in an island off Ileret, 70 km.s South of the border with Ethiopia."
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"A minority of the Elmolo lives in the Division administrative centre of Loiyangalani, but the overwhelming majority inhabits two villages: Layieni (6 km.s North of Loiyangalani)... and Komote (13 km.s North of Loiyangalani)... Other Elmolo settle for at least a part of the year further North of Komote, especially in Palo (25 km.s North of Loiyangalani), where they fish and attend to the goats (no grazing is possible in Layieni and Komote). Finally, a section of the Elmolo is settled in an island off Ileret, 70 km.s South of the border with Ethiopia."
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"Kenya, Loiyangallani and Elmolo Bay on the southeastern side of Lake Turkana, Marsabit District."
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"Kenya, Loiyangallani and Elmolo Bay on the southeastern side of Lake Turkana, Marsabit District."
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"The 4,000 ethnic Elmolo now speak Samburu, a Nilotic language"
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- 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/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- 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
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