The Mukogodo-Maasai (formerly Yaaku) are a people living in the Mukogodo Division of the Laikipia District of Rift Valley Province, Kenya. Former hunter-gatherers and bee-keepers, they have assimilated to the pastoralist culture of the Maasai in the first half of the twentieth century, although there is still some occasional bee-keeping going on. As a result of this transition they gave up their old 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: In anthropology, the hunter-gatherer way of life is that led by certain societies of the Neolithic Era based on the exploitation of wild plants and animals. ... Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of one or more hives of honeybees. ... Peoples whose main source of livelihood is primarily livestock with which they move seasonally in search of fresh pasture and water Examples Masai Boran Turkana Categories: Substubs ... A Maasai tribesman The Maasai or Masai are an indigenous African tribe of semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and northern Tanzania. ... The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in the...

• sɪka — 'honey' (cf. Maasai en-aisho)
• íno — 'Greater honeyguide (Indicator indicator)' (compare Maasai n-cɛshɔrɔ-î)
• kantála — 'wooden honey container (about 60 cm)'

Binomial name Indicator indicator (Sparrman, 1777) The Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) is a honeyguide. ...

See also

• Dorobo
• Language shift
• Language death
• Languages of Kenya

The Ndorobo (sometimes Dorobo) are a Nilotic hunter-gatherer people group found mainly in Kenya. ... Language shift is the process whereby an entire speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language. ... In linguistics, language death occurs when communication in a language stops. ...

References

• Brenzinger, Matthias (1992) 'Lexical retention in language shift', in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.) Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 213–254.
• Cronk, Lee (2002) 'From true Dorobo to Mukogodo-Maasai: contested ethnicity in Kenya', Ethnology, 41(1), 27–49.
• Heine, Bernd (1975) 'Notes on the Yaaku language (Kenya)', Afrika und Übersee, 58, 26–299.
• Heine, Bernd & Brenzinger, Matthias (1988) 'Notes on the Mukogodo dialect of Maasai', Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, 14, 97–131.
• Sommer, Gabriele (1992) 'A survey on language death in Africa', in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.) Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 301–417.

External links

• Prifle of the Mukogodo People of Kenya (http://orvillejenkins.com/profiles/mukogodo.html)