

Maa: A Dictionary of the Maasai Language and Folklore, English-Maasai. Topics in Arusa Phonology and Morphology. On the Rise of Grammatical Categories: Some Examples from Maa. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 14.97-131. Notes on the mukogodo dialect of Maasai (Kenya).

(Veröffentlichungen der Institute für Afrikanistik und Agyptologie der Universität Wien 14.) Wien: Beiträge zur Afrikanistik.

Hofmann (ed.), Festschrift zum 60 Geburtstag von P. Maasai Auxiliaries and Infinitival Constructions. In Matthias Brenzinger (ed.) Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa, 117-135. In Matthias Brenzinger (ed.) Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa, 213-254. Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu. Paper presented at the Sixth Nilo-Saharan Conference, Santa Monica, California. Return to Maasai Language Project Selected References Bender, M. Selected References for fuller information on the Maa language. Language Change and Borrowingsįor links to information on Linguistics and the University of Oregon. Maa Vowels (or, "What do Tongue Root Contrasts Sound Like?") 5. The Nilo-Saharan Language Family (Historical Linguistics) 3. The variety described in the following pages corresponds to southern Kenyan Maasai.ġ. It is spoken by approximately 500,000 Maasai, Samburu, Camus in Kenya, and about 500,000 Arusa, Kisonko and IlParakuyo people in Tanzania. The Maa language or language group has several varieties, all known as "Maa". Payne 2008 The following links lead to a brief description of the Maa language. Maa Dictionary Maasai (IlKeekonyokie, IlPurko, IlWuasinkishu) and SamburuĪugust 2005, 2008 (c) Doris L.
