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Rendille (also known as Rendile, Randile) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Rendille people inhabiting northern Kenya. It is part of the family's Cushitic branch.[2]

Rendille
Native to	Kenya
Region	Eastern Province
Native speakers	60,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Rendille–Boni Rendille
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rel
Glottolog	rend1243

The Ariaal sub-group of the Rendille, who are of mixed Nilotic and Cushitic descent, speak the Nilo-Saharan Samburu language of the Samburu Nilotes near whom they live.[2][3]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental– alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	voiceless		t	c	k
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	g
Fricative		f	s		x	h ~ ħ ~ ʔ
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Glide		w		j

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Near-close	ɪ	ʊ
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a	ɑ

Notes

References

• Antoinette Oomen. 1981. "Gender and Plurality in Rendille," Afroasiatic Linguistics 8:35-75.
• Steve Pillinger & Letiwa Galboran. 1999. A Rendille Dictionary, Including a Grammatical Outline and an English-Rendille Index. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 14. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
• Günther Schlee. 1978. Sprachliche Studien zum Rendille. Hamburger Philologische Studien 46. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
• Ronald J. Sim. 1981. "Morphophonemics of the Verb in Rendille," Afroasiatic Linguistics 8:1-33.

На других языках

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[de] Rendille (Sprache)

Rendille (alternative Namen sind Rendili, Rendile oder auch Randile)[2] ist eine afroasiatische Sprache aus der Familie der kuschitischen Sprachen, zugehörig den ostkuschitischen Tieflandsprachen. Sie wird von der gleichnamigen Volksgruppe Rendille mit rund 60.000 Sprechern[3] im Norden von Kenia gesprochen.

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- [en] Rendille language

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[ru] Рендилле (язык)

Рендилле (Randile, Rendile, Rendille) — афразийский язык, на котором говорит народ рендилле, который проживает в округе Марсабит (между озером Туркана и горой Марсабит) Восточной провинции в Кении.

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