The ASJP Database - Wordlist Terik

Wordlist Terik

Compiled by Matthew S. Dryer

No.	Meaning	Concepticon	Word	Loan

Glottocode: teri1244
ISO 639-3: tec

Coordinates WGS84

0°52'N, 35°28'E
0.86, 35.47

number of speakers	23,300
status	alive

Classification

WALS: ESu > Southern Nilotic
Glottolog: Nilotic > Southernnilotic > Kalenjin > Centralkalenjin > Plateaucentralkalenjin
Ethnologue: Nilo Saharan > Satellite Core > Core > Easternsudanic > Southern(nlanguages) > Nilotic > Southern > Kalenjin > Nandi Markweta > Nandi

Sources

Distefano 1985: The precolonial history of the Kalenjin of Kenya: a methodological comparison of linguistic and oral traditional evidence. Doctoral dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles.