Tugen

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Tugen is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Tugen people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.

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Label Occurrences
Tugen canonical 4

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southern Nilotic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Keiyo
Kipsigis
Nandi
country Kenya
ethnicGroupAssociated Tugen people
family Southern Nilotic languages
surface form: Southern Nilotic
glottocode tuge1242
hasDialect Arror
Lembus
Samor
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative morphology
verb–subject–object basic word order (VSO)
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
vowel length contrast
iso639-3 tuy
isPartOf Kalenjin macrolanguage
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
surface form: Nilo-Saharan

Nilotic languages
surface form: Nilotic
region Baringo County
Elgeyo-Marakwet County
Rift Valley Province
surface form: Rift Valley Province (former)
spokenBy Tugen people
spokenIn Kenya
spokenInRegion Rift Valley region
subfamily Kalenjin
usedIn local radio broadcasts
oral literature
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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