Tugen language

Tugen
North Tugen
Native to	Kenya
Region	West Central Kenya
Native speakers	140,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Southern Nilotic Kalenjin Nandi–Markweta Nandi Tugen
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tuy
Glottolog	tuge1241[2]

Tugen is the language spoken by the about 200,000 Tugen people of the broader Kalenjin group in Kenya. As a part of the Kalenjin dialect cluster, it is most closely related to such varieties as Kipsigis 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.

References

1. Tugen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tugen". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.