El Molo

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El Molo is a nearly extinct Cushitic language spoken by the El Molo people of northern Kenya along the shores of Lake Turkana.

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El Molo canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic language
language
associatedWith Turkana County
continent Africa
country Kenya
endangerment critically endangered language
ethnicGroup El Molo people
hasAlternativeName Elmolo
Fura-Pawa
hasEndonym Elmolo
hasLinguisticFeature Cushitic morphology
Cushitic phonology
ISO639-3 elo
languageBranch Cushitic languages
linked to: Cushitic
languageCodeType ISO 639-3
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
locatedNear Lake Turkana
primaryUse oral communication
region northern Kenya
riskFactor language shift to neighboring languages
shiftedTo Samburu language
linked to: Maasai language

Turkana language
spokenAlong Lake Turkana
spokenBy very few speakers
spokenIn Kenya
status moribund
nearly extinct
subclassOf Lowland East Cushitic language
usedBy El Molo community
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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