Turkana language

Turkana
Ng'aturk(w)ana
Native to	Kenya
Region	Northwest Kenya, west of Lake Turkana
Native speakers	990,000 (2009 census) not counting Nyangatom
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Eastern Nilotic Lotuxo–Teso Teso–Turkana Turkana Turkana
Dialects	Nyangatom
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(not counting Nyangatom)
Glottolog	`turk1308`

Turkana /tɜːrˈkɑːnə/ is the language of the Turkana people of Kenya, numbering about 340,000.

It is one of the Eastern Nilotic languages, and is closely related to Karamojong, Jie and Teso of Uganda, to Toposa spoken in the extreme southeast of Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Teso–Turkana languages.

The collective group name for these related peoples is Ateker.