Tugen is the language spoken by the about 200 000 Tugen

Tugen

Tugen may also refer to Tugen Hills in KenyaThe Tugen are a branch of the Kalenjin community and they occupy the districts of Baringo and Koibatek in Rift Valley, Kenya. Daniel arap Moi, the second president of Kenya was from the Tugen branch...

 people of the broader Kalenjin group in Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

. As a part of the Kalenjin

Kalenjin language

The Nandi languages, or Kalenjin proper, are a dialect cluster of the Kalenjin branch of the Nilotic language family.In Kenya, where speakers make up 18% of the population, the name Kalenjin, a Nandi expression meaning "I say ", gained prominence in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, when several...

 dialect cluster, it is most closely related to such varieties as Kipsigis

Kipsigis language

Kipsigis is part of the Kenyan Kalenjin dialect cluster, commonly called Nandi . It is spoken mainly in the Kericho district of the Rift Valley Province in Kenya. The Kipsigis people are the most numerous tribe of the Kalenjin in Kenya...

 and Nandi.

The Tugen is made up of three main sub-groups, the Lembus to the south, the Arror in the north and the Samor in the central parts of Baringo district, Kenya.

These Tugen sub-groups have unique dialects that might interest linguist researchers.

Kipturgo K.M

External links

• Tugen in the Ethnologue
  Ethnologue
  Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International , a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies lesser-known languages, to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language and support their efforts in language development.The Ethnologue...
  
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