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Maasai language
Maasai or Masai (;〔Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh〕 autonym: ''ɔl Maa'') is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 800,000. It is closely related to the other Maa varieties: Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya, Chamus, spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo (sometimes regarded as a dialect of Samburu); and Parakuyu of Tanzania. The Maasai, Samburu, il-Chamus and Parakuyu peoples are historically related and all refer to their language as ''(unicode:ɔl Maa)''.
== Phonology ==
The Maasai variety of ''ɔl Maa'' as spoken in southern Kenya and Tanzania has 30 contrasting sounds, which can be represented and alphabetized as followsː ''a'', ''b'', ''ch'' (a variant of ''sh''), ''d'', ''e'', ''ɛ'', ''g'', ''h'', ''i'', ''ɨ'', ''j'', ''k'', ''l'', ''m'', ''n'', ''ny'', ''ŋ'', ''o'', ''ɔ'', ''p'', ''r'', ''rr'', ''s'', ''sh'' (with variant ''ch''), ''t'', ''u'', ''ʉ'', ''w'', ''wu'' (or ''ww''), ''y'', ''yi'' (or ''yy''), and the glottal stop ''''' (or ''ʔ'').
Tone is extremely important for conveying correct meaning in the Maasai language.
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