Turkana language
Turkana is the language of the Turkana people of Kenya and Ethiopia. It is spoken in northwestern Kenya, primarily in Turkana County, which lies west of Lake Turkana. 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 South Sudan, and to Nyangatom in the South Sudan/Ethiopia Omo valley borderland; these languages together form the cluster of Ateker Languages. The collective group name for these related peoples is Ateker. Phonology Consonants can also occur as affricated when in syllable-initial positions. Affricate sounds can also be heard as palatal stops . Voiced stops may also occur glottalized as implosives when in syllable-initial positions. In syllable-final position, they are realized as unreleased. is realized as a uvular stop when occurring in between vowels . When it is preceded and followed by back vowels, it is then lenited and heard as the following sounds , or . is in free variation with . These sounds are voiceless at the end of a syllable. When syllable-initial, they are instead voiced, often with a voiceless onset: or . is often realized as lengthening of the previous vowel when