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East Nyanza languages
Subgroup of Great Lakes Bantu languages spoken in Kenya and Tanzania From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The East Nyanza languages form a subgroup of the Great Lakes Bantu languages spoken in Kenya and Tanzania.
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History
Proto-East Nyanza speakers migrated into the Mara region in 100 AD and subsequently split into the Suguti and Mara branches around 300 AD. As the early East Nyanza speakers migrated into the Mara Region (and later, western kenya), they encountered Southern Cushitic and Kuliak peoples, whom they absorbed and were culturally influenced by. They were later also influenced by a now-extinct branch of southern Nilotic people who were migrating into the Mara Region from the north at the same time as the East Nyanza peoples. The early East Nyanza peoples were matrilineal, which aided them in absorbing Kuliak, Cushitic, and Nilotic males into their societies.[2][3][4]
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Classification
The East Nyanza languages are classified within the Glottolog database as follows:[5]
References
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