Rendille–Boni languages explained

Rendille–Boni
Region:Kenya
Familycolor:Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:Cushitic
Fam3:Lowland East Cushitic
Fam4:Macro-Somali?
Child1:Aweer
Child2:Rendille
Glotto:none

The Rendille–Boni languages is a proposed subgroup of the Macro-Somali languages, belonging to the Cushitic family. The languages are spoken in Kenya.[1] The hypothesis has been by now rejected, in favor of grouping Aweer as a member of the Somali languages, closely related to Garre.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. Mauro. Tosco. 1994. The Historical Reconstruction of a Southern Somali Dialect: Proto-Karre-Boni. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika. 15. 153–209.