The ASJP Database - Wordlist Maasai

Wordlist Maasai

Compiled by Viveka Velupillai

No.	Meaning	Concepticon	Word	Loan

Glottocode: masa1300
ISO 639-3: mas

Coordinates WGS84

3°S, 36°E
-3.00, 36.00

number of speakers	1,872,000
status	alive

Classification

WALS: ESu > Eastern Nilotic
Glottolog: Nilotic > Easternnilotic > Teso Lotuxo Maa > Lotuxo Maa > Ongamo Maa > Nuclearmaa
Ethnologue: Nilo Saharan > Satellite Core > Core > Easternsudanic > Southern(nlanguages) > Nilotic > Eastern > Lotuxo Teso > Lotuxo Maa > Ongamo Maa

Sources

Vossen 1982: The Eastern Nilotes. Linguistic and historical reconstructions. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.