The Maa languages are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages spoken in parts of Kenya and Tanzania by more than a million speakers. They are subdivided into North and South Maa. The Maa languages are related to the Lotuko languages spoken in South Sudan.
Facts
Partially Attested
Speaker CountSource gives only a lower bound, more than a million speakers; 1000000 is the floor, not an exact count. Browse and compare
Classification Confidence Reconstructed Ancestor RegionKenya and northern Tanzania 1 Proto-Language StatusReconstructed (Proto-Ongamo-Maa, Vossen and Rottland 1989) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Maa languages
Infobox, region
Kenya and northern Tanzania
Introduction
more than a million speakers
Reconstruction
Proto-Ongamo-Maa has been reconstructed by Vossen & Rottland (1989).
Article text
Proto-Ongamo-Maa has been reconstructed by Vossen & Rottland (1989)
Lead paragraph
The Maa languages are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually intelligible) spoken in parts of Kenya and Tanzania by more than a million speakers.
View the SourceWikidata: Maa languages
Wikidata Q626493, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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