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The Nandi languages, or Kalenjin proper, are a dialect cluster of the Kalenjin branch of the Nilotic language family. In Kenya, where speakers make up 18% of the population, the name ''Kalenjin'', a Nandi expression meaning "I say (to you)", gained prominence in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, when several Kalenjin-speaking peoples united under it. This ethnic consolidation created a major ethnic group in Kenya, and also involved a standardization of the Kenyan Kalenjin dialects. However, since outside Kenya the name ''Kalenjin'' has been extended to related languages such as Okiek of Tanzania and Elgon languages of Uganda, it is common in linguistic literature to refer to the languages of the Kenyan Kalenjin peoples as ''Nandi'', after the principal variety. ==Varieties== The Kenyan conception of ''Kalenjin'' includes Kipsigis and Terik but not Markweta, which is as closely related, and excludes several hunter-gatherer ("Dorobo") peoples who are not ethnically Kalenjin. The ethnic Kenyan Kalenjin are the Nandi proper (Cemual), Terik (Nyang'ori), Kipsigis, Keiyo, South Tugen (Tuken), and Cherangany. The varieties linguistically classified as Nandi in ''Ethnologue'' 18 (2015) are: *Nandi–Markweta * *Kipsigis * *Markweta * *Nandi * * * Naandi (Cemual) (Kenya) * * *Terik * * * Keiyo (Kenya) * * * (North) Tugen (Kenya) * * * Kisankasa ("Dorobo", Tanzania) * * * Mediak ("Dorobo", Tanzania) * * * Mosiro ("Dorobo", Tanzania) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nandi–Markweta languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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