Maasai

Maasai is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 900,000. It is closely related to the other Maa varieties Samburu, the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya, and to Chamus, spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo. The Maasai, Samburu and il-Chamus people are historically related and all refer to their language as ɔl Maa.

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Kenya's most well-known ethnic tribe, the Maasai (or Masai) are semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are considered to be part of the Nilotic family of African tribal groups, just as the Scilluk from Sudan and the Acholi from Uganda.

The Maasai probably migrated from the Nile valley in Ethiopia and Sudan to Maasailand (central and south-western Kenya and northern Tanzania) sometime around 1600 AD, along the route of lakes Chew Bahir and Turkana (ex Rudolph), bringing their domesticated cattle with them.

Once considered fierce warriors, feared by all tribes in the zone, the Maasai lost most of their power during the late XIX century, as a consequence of a string of natural and historic calamities. They were hit by drought, smallpox, and cattle pest, and contemporarily had to mourn the departure of Laibon Mbatiani, their respected and much admired leader, direct descendant of the mythical OlMasinta, founder of the tribe.

Altogether, the traditional Maasai lifestyle is under pressure to change rapidly. As socio-cultural changes occur, the language is also facing the probability of considerable change. To help document the language and Maasai culture (both traditional and modern), we are working on cross-dialect lexicographic (dictionary) and text data bases of the Maa (Maasai) language. The lexicography data base currently includes over 3,000 entries. Funding permitting, we plan to include a minimum of three dialects and about 5,000 entries.

Maasai (ol-Maa)
The Maasai or Masai language is a member of the East Niolitic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. There are about 900,000 Masai speakers in Kenya and Tanzania. The term Maasai refers to "one who speaks the Maa language".

Maasai pronunciation


*/ww/ and /yy/ are pronounced fortis.

Tones indication
á rising tone
a level tone
à falling tone
â falling tone

Sample text in Masai
órè dúó apá ánaa enáyyólo naá órè taá, órè taá náají, órè dúó énaa enapákátá earây, náa káytírríshíákì náají ìnè wwéjì amû órè apá, néetây apá, néetây apá oltuŋánì ojî apá Inkimís.

Translation
As far as what I know from a long time ago, like the time there was fighting I can remember a lot about that time because a long time ago, there was...At that time there was a person named Inkimis.

The Maasai speak Maa, a Nilotic language that originates from the Nile region. Nilotic simply means ‘of the Nile’. Maasai translates as ‘one who speaks the Maa language.’


Few other peoples speak or incorporate Maa in their own tongue including the Ndorobo, Njemps, Mukugodo, Rendille, Samburu, Arusha, Baraguyu, Parakuyu, Sonjo and those Elmolo who live on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. However it is the Maasai who originally spoke Maa.


The Maa language can now be found in written form, although the process of properly documenting it are in the early stages.

There is a Maa/English dictionary which is sold in East Africa by Frans Mol (Dutch missionary) called Maasai Language & Culture Dictionary, published in 1996.


There is also a Bible and a few other publications in Maa.


Maasai school children have classes in Maa but learn the National languages of Swahili and English

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