{{Short description|Bantu dialect group of Kenya}} {{Infobox language | name = Idakho-Isukha-Tiriki | nativename = {{lang|ida|Luidakho}}, {{lang|ida|Luisukha}}, {{lang|ida|Lutirichi}} | states = Kenya | ethnicity = [[Idakho tribe (Luhya)|Idakho]], [[Isukha tribe (Luhya)|Isukha]], [[Tiriki tribe (Luhya)|Tiriki]] | speakers = 600,000 | date = 2009 census | ref = e18 | familycolor = Niger-Congo | fam2 = [[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] | fam3 = [[Volta-Congo]] | fam4 = [[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]] | fam5 = [[Bantoid languages|Bantoid]] | fam6 = [[Southern Bantoid]] | fam7 = [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] | fam8 = [[Northeast Bantu]] | fam9 = [[Great Lakes Bantu]] | fam10 = Masaba-Luhya | iso3 = ida | glotto = idak1243 | glottorefname = Idakho-Isukha-Tiriki | guthrie = JE.411–413 }}
'''Idakho''', '''Isukha''', and '''Tiriki''' (''Luidakho, Luisukha, Lutirichi'') are dialects of a Kenyan language within the Luhya ethnic group. They are a set of languages closely related to some other Luhya ethnic groups like [[Maragoli]], but less so in comparison to others, like [[Bukusu]], Tachoni or Samia.
== Dialects ==
=== Tiriki === Tiriki, or known by the autoglossonym {{lang|ida|Lutirichi}}, is a language variety spoken in western Kenya and eastern Uganda<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kanyoro|first=Rachel|date=April 1985|title=Bernd Heine, The Waata Dialect of Oromo: grammatical sketch and vocabulary, Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, vol. 4, Berlin: Reimer, 1981, 72 pp., DM45, paperback. - [[Okoth Okombo|Duncan Okoth-Okombo]], Dholuo Morphophonemics in Generative Framework, Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, supplement 2, Berlin: Reimer, 1982, 118 pp., DM50, paperback. - Lucia Ndong'a Omondi, The Major Syntactic Structures of Dholuo, Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, supplement 1, Berlin: Reimer, 1982, 386 pp., DM118, paperback. - Bernd Heine, The Nubi Language of Kibera: an Arabic Creole grammatical sketch and vocabulary, Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, vol. 3, Berlin: Reimer, 1982, 84 pp., DM43, paperback. - Bernd Heine, Boni Dialects, Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, vol. 10, Berlin: Reimer, 1982, 152 pp., DM118, paperback. - Chet A. Creider, Studies in Kalenjin Nominal Tonology, Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, supplement 3, Berlin: Reimer, 1982, 158 pp., DM68, paperback.|journal=Africa|volume=55|issue=2|pages=228–232|doi=10.2307/1160314|issn=0001-9720|jstor=1160314}}</ref> within the [[Luyia language|Luyia language family]]. It is the southeasternmost of the Luyia dialects, spoken primarily in Hamisi Constituency in Vihiga County, Western Province, Kenya. As reported in the 15th edition of the Ethnologue, a 1980 survey by Bernd Heine and Wilhelm Möhlig estimated there to be 100,000 speakers of Tiriki.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|title=Ethnologue. Languages of the World|doi = 10.1163/_afco_asc_441}}</ref> The 17th edition of the Ethnologue indicates a Tiriki-speaking population of 210,000 based on the 2009 Kenyan census, which surveyed ethnicity not language.<ref name=":0" />
==Phonology== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+Consonants<ref name=ingonga91>{{cite thesis |last=Ingonga |first=Lilian I. |date=1991|title=A comparative study of Ekegusii, Lulogooli, and Lwitakho: the phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic structures |publisher=Kenyatta University | publication-place=Nairobi}}</ref> ! ![[Labial consonant|Labial]] ![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]] ![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]] ![[Velar consonant|Velar]] ![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]] |- ![[Plosive]] |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t}} | |{{IPA link|k}} | |- ![[Prenasalized consonant|Prenasalized]] |{{IPA link|ᵐb}} |{{IPA link|ⁿd}}, {{IPA link|ⁿz}} |{{IPA link|ⁿdʒ}} |{{IPA link|ᵑg}} | |- ![[Affricate]] | |{{IPA link|ts}} |{{IPA link|tʃ}} | | |- ![[Fricative]] |{{IPA link|f}}, {{IPA link|β}} |{{IPA link|s}} |{{IPA link|ʃ}} | |{{IPA link|h}} |- ![[Nasal consonant|Nasal]] |{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} |{{IPA link|ɲ}} |{{IPA link|ŋ}} | |- ![[Approximant]] |{{IPA link|w}} |{{IPA link|l}} |{{IPA link|j}} | | |} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+Vowels<ref name=ingonga91/> ! ![[Front vowel|Front]] ![[Central vowel|Central]] ![[Back vowel|Back]] |- ![[Close vowel|High]] |{{IPA link|i}} | |{{IPA link|u}} |- ![[Near-close vowel|Near-high]] |{{IPA link|ɪ}} | |{{IPA link|ʊ}} |- ![[Mid vowel|Mid]] |{{IPA link|e}} | |{{IPA link|o}} |- ![[Open vowel|Low]] | |{{IPA link|a}} | |} ==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Languages of Kenya}} {{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones E–H)}} {{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M)}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Languages of Kenya]] [[Category:Great Lakes Bantu languages]]