Keiyo

E343373

Keiyo is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Keiyo people of Kenya’s Rift Valley region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Keiyo canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southern Nilotic language
language
associatedWith Kalenjin identity
closelyRelatedTo Kipsigis language
Marakwet language
Nandi language
Tugen language
country Kenya
ethnicGroup Keiyo people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Elgeyo
Kalenjin-Keiyo
linked to: Kalenjin

Keyo
hasCulturalRole expression of Keiyo customs
transmission of Keiyo oral literature
hasDialects northern Keiyo
southern Keiyo
hasDomainOfUse home
local markets
traditional ceremonies
hasGrammaticalFeature case-marking via suffixes
rich verbal morphology
verb-initial tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
vowel length contrast
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language in Kenya
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code eyo
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan
Nilotic
Southern Nilotic
partOf Kalenjin languages
primaryLocation Elgeyo-Marakwet County
region Rift Valley
linked to: Great Rift Valley
spokenBy Keiyo people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Kenya
Rift Valley region
subclassOf Nilo-Saharan language
Nilotic language
threatenedBy language shift to English
language shift to Swahili
usedAlongside English
Swahili
linked to: Swahili language
usedFor cultural practices
daily communication
oral tradition

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.