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{{Short description|Nilotic language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania}} {{Redirect|Akiek language|the other language sometimes called Akiek|Akie people#Language}} {{more footnotes|date=December 2014}} {{Infobox language | name = Ogiek | altname = Okiek<br>Akiek | states = [[Kenya]], [[Tanzania]] | region = ''Kinare'': Kinare, Kenya, on the eastern slope of the Rift Valley. <br />''Sogoo'': Kenya, southern Mau forest between the Amala and [[Ewas Ng'iro]] rivers.<br />''Akiek'': Tanzania, southern part of Arusha Region. | ethnicity = [[Okiek people|Okiek]], [[Akie people|Akie]] | speakers = 79,000 in Kenya | date = 2009 census | ref = e18 | speakers2 = A few older speakers in Tanzania | familycolor = Nilo-Saharan | fam2 = [[Eastern Sudanic]] | fam3 = [[Nilotic languages|Nilotic]] | fam4 = [[Southern Nilotic]] | fam5 = [[Kalenjin languages|Kalenjin]] | fam6 = Okiek–[[Akie people#Language|Akie]] | dia1 = Kinare (extinct) | dia2 = Sogoo (endangered) | dia3 = [[Akie people#Language|Akie]] (endangered) | iso3 = oki | glotto = okie1247 | glottoname = Okiek-Akie | glotto2 = okie1245 | glottoname2 = Okiek | lingua = 04-CAA-e | image = Pic 367 nessuit.JPG | imagecaption = Ogiek People }} '''Ogiek''' (also '''Okiek''' and '''Akiek''')<ref>The initial vowel varies by dialect. The first consonant is {{IPA|/k/}}, but is pronounced {{IPA blink|ɡ}} or {{IPA blink|ɣ}} between vowels.</ref> is a [[Southern Nilotic languages|Southern Nilotic]] language of the [[Kalenjin languages|Kalenjin]] family spoken or once spoken by the [[Ogiek]] peoples, scattered groups of hunter-gatherers in Southern [[Kenya]] and Northern [[Tanzania]]. Most Ogiek speakers have assimilated to cultures of surrounding peoples: the Akie in northern Tanzania now speak [[Maasai language|Maasai]] and the Ogiek of Kinare, Kenya now speak [[Gikuyu language|Gikuyu]]. ''[[Dorobo|Ndorobo]]'' is a term considered derogatory, occasionally used to refer to various groups of hunter-gatherers in this area, including the Ogiek.
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