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Yaaku
The Yaaku (often Mukogodo-Maasai) are a people living in the Mukogodo forest west of Mount Kenya, a division of the Laikipia District of Rift Valley ProvinceKenya. Former hunter-gatherers and bee-keepers, the Yaaku have assimilated to the pastoralist culture of the Maasai in the first half of the twentieth century, although some still keep bees. The reason for this transition is mostly one of social prestige. The Maasai look down upon hunter-gatherer peoples, calling them Dorobo ('the ones without cattle'), and many Yaaku consider the Maasai culture to be superior. As a result of the assimilation the Yaaku almost completely gave up their Cushitic language Yaaku for the Eastern Nilotic Maasai language between 1925 and 1936. The Maasai variant they speak nowadays is called Mukogodo-Maasai. Old Yaaku words are still found in some parts of the bee-keeping vocabulary, for example:sɪka — 'honey' (cf. Maasai en-aisho)íno — 'Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator)' (compare Maasai n-cɛshɔrɔ-î)kantála — 'wooden honey container (about 60 cm)'
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Yaaku
Yaaku is de naam van een stam in Kenia. De Yaaku zijn jager-verzamelaars die in het Mukogodo-bos leven, ten westen van Mount Kenya, in de provincie Bonde la Ufa.Oorspronkelijk spraken de Yaaku de gelijknamige Koesjitische taal, maar sinds de jaren dertig namen ze vrijwel allemaal de Nilotische taal van de Masaï over. Ze spreken een variant van het Masaï, genaamd Mukogodo-Masaï, die nog steeds woorden van de Yaaku-taal bevat. Een opvallende eigenschap van de taal is het aantal enkel- en meervoudsvormen. Het Yaaku kent 5 enkelvoudvormen en 15 meervoudvormen.
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YAAKU
Yaaku is a Cushitic language spoken by the Yaaku people of Kenya.
Reports from 1983 revealed just 250 Yaaku people living in Mukogodo Forest, and they may now be extinct.
The language is: Yaaku

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