Rendille language

Rendille
Native to	Kenya
Region	Eastern Province
Native speakers	60,000 (2009 census)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Rendille–Boni Rendille
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`rel`
Glottolog	`rend1243`^[2]

Rendille (also known as Rendile, Randile) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Rendille people inhabiting northern Kenya. It is part of the family's Cushitic branch.^[3]

The Ariaal sub-group of the Rendille, who are of mixed Nilotic and Cushitic descent, speak the Nilo-Saharan Samburu language of the Samburu Nilotes near whom they live.^[3]^[4]

1 Phonology
- 1.1 Consonants
- 1.2 Vowels
2 Notes
3 References

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental–alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Voiceless plosive		t	c	k
Voiced plosive	b	d	ɟ	g
Fricative	f	s		x	h ~ ħ ~ ʔ
Lateral		l
Trill		r
Nasal	m	n
Glide	w		j

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Near-close	ɪ	ʊ
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a	ɑ

Notes

^ Rendille at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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^ ^a ^b Ethnologue - Rendille
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References

Antoinette Oomen. 1981. "Gender and Plurality in Rendille," Afroasiatic Linguistics 8:35-75.
Steve Pillinger & Letiwa Galboran. 1999. A Rendille Dictionary, Including a Grammatical Outline and an English-Rendille Index. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 14. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
Günther Schlee. 1978. Sprachliche Studien zum Rendille. Hamburger Philologische Studien 46. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
Ronald J. Sim. 1981. "Morphophonemics of the Verb in Rendille," Afroasiatic Linguistics 8:1-33.

Cushitic languages

Beja

Beja

Agaw

Highland East

Lowland East

Saho–Afar	Afar Saho

Oromoid	Borana Eastern Oromo Orma Oromo Waata

Konsoid	Bussa Dirasha Gato Konso Mashile Turo

(West) Omo–Tana	Arbore Daasanach El Molo

Rendille–Boni	Baiso Boni Rendille

Somali	Dabarre Garre Jiiddu Maay Somali Ashraf Benadiri Tunni

Other	Boon Dahalo Girirra Ongota Yaaku

Dullay

South

Italics indicate extinct languages

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