Yaaku Language

Yaaku is a critically endangered language spoken in Doldol and Mukogodo forest in the Rift Valley, Kenya by the Yaaku people.

It belongs to the Omo-Tana group of languages .

Yaaku language has approximately 10 native speakers.

A more detailed story about the Yaaku and plans to revive the critically endangered language is available here. (The article was first published in 2005, at which point the fluent speakers of the Yaaku language were elderly. As a result, the language may now be on the brink of extinction.).

Video of Nkapilil Supuko playing a Yaaku song:

The Yaaku people:

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Every day, new words shape our world - from artificial intelligence to blockchain, from climate change to social media.

While languages like English grow and adapt, what about Yaaku?

How do we explain quantum computing in Yaaku?

What's the word for 'cryptocurrency'?

Without action today, how will future generations express tomorrow's ideas in Yaaku?

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If not you, who will keep Yaaku alive?

If not now, when will we start?

If not here, where will it happen?

This is our language. This is our responsibility.

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  • This page was last updated on August 14, 2023
Define a Yaaku word
Yaaku/Omo-Tana
Native to

Kenya

Estimated Native Speakers

10

Region

Doldol and Mukogodo forest in the Rift Valley, Kenya

Status

Endangered

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