RVN Webinar Series - Our tongues are rare: the mysterious Dorobo language known as Omaiyo
Channel: Rift Valley Network
Date: 21/05/2020

Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and 
findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change.

How to cite:  Griscom, Richard. 2020. Our tongues are rare: the mysterious Dorobo language known as Omaiyo. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 20/05/2020.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3835598

Abstract: The term “Dorobo”, taken from the Maa word iltorobo (“those without cattle”), is used to describe unrelated small hunter-gatherer communities of East Africa, many of which have integrated with larger pastoralist communities such as the Maasai. This report will describe a visit to the last speakers of an unclassified Dorobo language, known by linguists as Omaiyo, which was conducted in northern Tanzania in the summer of 2018.

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