Bukusu dialect

Bukusu
Lubukusu
Native toKenya
EthnicityBukusu
Native speakers
1.4 million (2009 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bxk
Glottologbuku1249
JE.31c[3]

Bukusu is a dialect of the Masaba language spoken by the Bukusu tribe of the Luhya people of western Kenya. It is one of several ethnically Luhya dialects; however, it is more closely related to the Gisu dialect of Masaaba in eastern Uganda (and to the other Luhya dialect of Tachoni) than it is to other languages spoken by the Luhya.[2]

  1. ^ Bukusu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Maho (2009)
  3. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online