| Variants |
SOKÔ |
| Language affiliation |
Nilo-Saharan |
| Language affiliation (details) |
Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Southern, Kalenjin. |
| Geographic locations |
Kenya, southern Mau forest, on the eastern side of the Mara River and around the Ewaso Ngiro River, in the Narok district of the Rift Valley Province. |
| Language situation |
Moribund language: only a few elderly speakers are left |
| General presentation of the language |
It shares linguistic similarities with Okiek, to the point of being considered by some linguists as one of its dialects. |
| Number of speakers |
Around 60 Sogoo speakers in the 1970s. |
| Socio-linguistic context – description |
Sogoo is the language of the Sogoo ethnic group. They adopted Masaai customs of ceremonies of passage, such as mariage, birth, circumcision and burial. They speak a form of Sogoo that is stronlgy influenced by Maasai. |
| ISO standard codes (639-2 / 639-3) |
[OKI] |
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| Unicode support |
Yes |
