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Samburu people

Самбуру · Q1261878

language area per Glottologcensus counts
237,179
Kenya, census 2009 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Nilotic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Kenya: 237,179 people in the 2009 census.

Main language: Samburu. Glottolog classifies it in the Nilotic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Kenya2009 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Samburu» · [1]
237,179

Languages and their lineage

Samburu

  1. Niloticnilo1247
  2. Eastern Niloticeast2418
  3. Teso-Lotuxo-Maateso1247
  4. Lotuxo-Maalotu1248
  5. Ongamo-Maaonga1238
  6. Nuclear Maanucl1431
  7. Samburusamb1315

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Kalenjin peopleLuo peopleTurkana peopleMaasai people

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Kenya, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)