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later a schoolmaster and Education Officer of the Loiyangalani Division. He retired in 2006 and this is when he began to attempt to reinstate El Molo as the language of the community through school teaching. Basil and his collogues collected any further linguistic and anthropological data. Efforts were dropped in 2012 because it was difficult to implement and extend Cushitic lexical material as it was limited, or its knowledge was too unevenly spread among the community to be any help. Another thing discovered was how the El Molo people will not disclose themselves the population of their community. They believe that disclosing their numbers endangers them more, since over the years they have been assimilated by their surrounding communities.
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were recorded in 1934, 143 people in 1973, approximately 200 in 1976. Counts by fieldworkers gave 613 in 2008 and approximately 700 by 2012; a much larger number of 2840 was reported in the Kenyan 2009 national census. According to the 2019 census, the ethnic population is about 1,100 and the population is decreasing yearly.
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With the language endangerment of El Molo, as with other languages there is a possibility of a loss of undiscovered and unique knowledge that is still yet to be explored. The names a language bestows upon objects, plants or animals go beyond mere labels, but rather include a great deal of information
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In 1995 the “Elmolo Development Group” (EDG) was established to promote self-reliance among the Elmolo people especially in an attempt for revitalization. In this there also was an Elmolo language revival program that had begun. Founder and chairman, Michael Basili, of the Gura Pau was a teacher and
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An unsolved question is whether the Elmolo were “originally” speakers of a Cushitic language, and still another is whether they were always fishers or rather pastoralists who turned to fishing out of necessity in an area unsuitable for animal husbandry. Heine (1982) favors the first hypothesis, and
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The remaining few speakers of the language are fighting to keep the language alive. There is still a considerable quantity of preserved vocabulary for the language itself. The original Cushitic-Elmolo can be divided into items of basic vocabulary (such as body parts, numerals, names of plants and
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on the southeast shore of Lake Turkana, between El Molo bay and Mount Kulal. Unlike their surrounding neighbors, the El Molo do not depend on livestock for livelihood. Fish is their main diet, but they occasionally they eat crocodile, turtle, and hippos. The population has been growing: 84 people
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animals, and kinship terms). The Samburu dialect is now spoken in substitute of El Molo. All Cushitic material has lost its original phonology and morphosyntax, which have been adapted to Samburu. Present-day El Molo thus follows the phonological and morphological rules of Samburu.
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Federico Corriente, Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Ángeles Vicente & Juan-Pablo Vita (Eds.), Dialectology of the Semitic Languages. Proceedings of the Iv Meeting on Comparative Semitics, Zaragoza 6/9-11/2010 ("Aula Orientalis – Supplementa 27"). Sabadell (Barcelona): Editorial
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are one of the largest language families of East Africa, spoken in an area stretching from North-East Sudan at the Egyptian border, embracing Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, a considerable part of Kenya, and some areas of Northern Tanzania. Its closest relative is
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Tosco, Mauro. 2012. What Terminal Speakers Can Do to Their Language: the Case of Elmolo. In Federico Corriente and Gregorio del Olmo Lete and Ángeles Vicente and Juan-Pablo Vita (eds.), Dialectology of the Semitic Languages. 131–143. Sabadell (Barcelona): Editorial
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The language and most of the culture has been lost to assimilation from surrounding neighbors. Native transmission of El Molo largely ceased during the first half of the 20th century. The people at all ages now speak primarily
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Tosco, Mauro. 1998. "People who are not the language they speak": on language shift without language decay in East Africa. In Brenzinger, M. (ed.), Endangered languages in Africa, 119-142. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe
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Scherrer, Carol. 1974. Effects of western influence on Elmolo, 1973-74. (Discussion papers from the Inst. of African Studies (IAS), 61.) Nairobi: University of Nairobi.
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about the proper place this community view this animal in the world, and can reveal how a culture imagines the proper place for these creatures in the wild.
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Brenzinger, Matthias (ed). 1992. Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations and Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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The El Molo population is also referred to as the “Dhes, Elmolo, Fura-Pawa, Ldes, and Ndorobo”. They are fishermen concentrated in two villages in
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Brenzinger, Matthias. 1992. Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/ Mukogodo- Maasai and El-molo/Elmolo- Samburu. In Brenzinger (ed), 213–254.
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claims that traditional fishing in Kenya’s Rift Valley is likely to go back to Eastern Cushites originating from the Ethiopian Highlands.
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Dyson, W. S. and Fuchs, V. E. 1937. The Elmolo. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 67. 327–338.
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Tosco, Mauro (2015). "From Elmolo to Gura Pau: A Remembered Cushitic language of Lake Turkana and its possible revitalization".
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is a Samburu name referring to people who do not use livestock as their source of income. The name is formed from the Samburu
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Bunyi, Grace. "Language in Education in Kenyan School". Encyclopedia of Language Education. Volume 5: 33.
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FEAR OF EXTINCTION AS THE EL MOLO DROP allAfrica.com, March 12, 2010 NEWS, 2pp database : NewsBank
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The Historical Tradition of the People of the Eastern Lake Turkana Basin, ca. 1840-1925
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in South Ethiopia. This seems to be confirmed by El Molo's linguistic proximity to the
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Heine, Bernd. 1972/73. Vokabulare ostafrikanischer Restsprachen, 1: Elmolo.
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El Molo belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The
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Fear of Extinction as the El Molo Numbers Drop (2010). allAfrica.com.
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Lamberti, Marcello (1991). "Cushitic and Its Classifications".
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Oral tradition sees the El Molo people as an offshoot of the
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Joshua Project. "El Molo in Kenya". Retrieved 9 March 2018.
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Kenya
El Molo people
Extinct
Revival
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Afro-Asiatic
Cushitic
Lowland East
Western Omo–Tana
ISO 639-3
elo
Glottolog
elmo1238
ELP
El Molo
Cushitic
Afro-Asiatic
El Molo people
Lake Turkana
Samburu language
Daasanach
Arbore people
Arbore language
Cushitic languages
Arbore
Dhaasanac
Arboroid

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