Bukusu (or LuBukusu) is the Bantu language of the Bukusu people of western Kenya. It is one of the related languages of the Luhya people. Dialects of the language are also spoken in eastern Uganda, by the Gisu, Basoga and Masaaba people. Bantu is a language family that belongs to the Niger-Congo group. ... Bukusu is one of the seventeen sub-tribes of the Luhya Bantu language and cultural group of East Africa. ... The Luhya (also Luyia, Luhia) are a Bantu people residing in Western Province, Kenya between Lake Victoria, Uganda and Mount Elgon. ...
Luhya (also Luyia, Luhia) is a group of Bantu languages spoken in the western part of Kenya by the Luhya people residing between Lake Victoria, Uganda and Mount Elgon. ...
Bibliography
De Blois, Kornelis Frans (1975) 'Bukusu generative phonology and aspects of Bantu structure' (Annales de MRAC, no. 85). Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
The Bukusu are one of the seventeen Kenyan sub-tribes of the LuhyaBantulanguage and cultural group of East Africa.
Currently, the Bukusu mainly inhabit Bungoma district of Western Province, which is bordered by Kakamega District to the east, Busia District to the south, Mount Elgon to the north and Uganda to the west.
Bukusu family structure was traditionally modelled on the generic Luhya family structure.
Of these, the language spoken around Kitale town is usually considered the purest form - this is because the other two dialects are significantly influenced by other dialects of the Luhyalanguages.
The dialect spoken east of Webuye town is influenced by the neighbouring Kabras and Tachoni dialects of the Luhyalanguage.
Because it borders the nilotic Kalenjin languages of the Pokot, Nandi and Sebei to the north, east and west, the Bukusulanguage spoken in Kitale area has largely retained its original form, save for a number of loan words from those languages.
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