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Rendille people, the Glossary

The Rendille (also known as Rendille, Reendile, Rendili, Randali, Randile, and Randille) are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Eastern Province of Kenya.^[1]

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Cushitic-speaking peoples

Abrahamic religions

The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three of the major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) together due to their historical coexistence and competition; it refers to Abraham, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Quran, and is used to show similarities between these religions and put them in contrast to Indian religions, Iranian religions, and the East Asian religions (though other religions and belief systems may refer to Abraham as well).

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African Great Lakes

The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu; Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.

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Afroasiatic languages

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.

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Age grade

In sociology and anthropology, an age grade or age class is a form of social organization based on age, within a series of such categories, through which individuals pass over the course of their lives.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Ariaal people

The Ariaal are northern Kenyan pastoralists. Rendille people and Ariaal people are ethnic groups in Kenya.

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Augustus Henry Keane

Augustus Henry Keane (1833–1912) was an Irish Roman Catholic journalist and linguist, known for his ethnological writings.

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Autosome

An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.

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Aweer people

The Aweer (also known as the Boni and Sanye) are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting the Coast Province in southeastern Kenya. Rendille people and Aweer people are Cushitic-speaking peoples and ethnic groups in Kenya.

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Bantu peoples

The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.

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Boorana

The Boorana (also known as Borana) are one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people.

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Camel

A camel (from camelus and κάμηλος from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Cushitic languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Rendille people and Cushitic languages are Cushitic-speaking peoples.

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Cushitic-speaking peoples

Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Eastern Nilotic languages

The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in South Sudan.

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Eastern Province (Kenya)

The Eastern Province (Mashariki) of Kenya was one of 8 Provinces of Kenya.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Ethnic religion

In religious studies, an ethnic religion is a religion or belief associated with notions of heredity and a particular ethnic group.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Ethnogenesis

Ethnogenesis is the formation and development of an ethnic group.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Ethnonym

An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.

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First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Gabra people

The Gabra (Gabraa) are a Cushitic ethnic group who mainly inhabit the Moyale and Marsabit regions of northern Kenya and the highlands of southern Ethiopia. Rendille people and Gabra people are Cushitic-speaking peoples and ethnic groups in Kenya.

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Genetic genealogy

Genetic genealogy is the use of genealogical DNA tests, i.e., DNA profiling and DNA testing, in combination with traditional genealogical methods, to infer genetic relationships between individuals.

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Goat

The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.

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Haplogroup I (mtDNA)

Haplogroup I is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.

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Haplogroup L0

Haplogroup L0 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.

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Haplogroup L2

Haplogroup L2 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup with a widespread modern distribution, particularly in Subequatorial Africa.

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Haplogroup M (mtDNA)

Haplogroup M is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.

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Haplogroup N1a (mtDNA)

Haplogroup N1a is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.

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Haplogroup R0

Haplogroup R0 (formerly known as haplogroup pre-HV) is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.

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Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.

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Infibulation

Infibulation is the ritual removal of the vulva and its suturing, a practice found mainly in northeastern Africa, particularly in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan.

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Iraqw people

The Iraqw People are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the northern Tanzanian regions. Rendille people and Iraqw people are Cushitic-speaking peoples.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson (10 November 1867 – 18 June 1947) was a British Army officer, hunter, and author best known for his book The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907), which details Patterson's experiences during the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in the East Africa Protectorate from 1898 to 1899.

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John Scott Keltie

Sir John Scott Keltie (29 March 1840 – 12 January 1927) was a Scottish geographer, best known for his work with the Royal Geographical Society.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Lake Turkana

Lake Turkana is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia.

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Macro-haplogroup L

In human mitochondrial genetics, L is the mitochondrial DNA macro-haplogroup that is at the root of the anatomically modern human (Homo sapiens) mtDNA phylogenetic tree.

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Marsabit County

Marsabit County is a county in Kenya.

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Marsabit District

Marsabit District was an administrative district in the Eastern Province of Kenya.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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Moiety (kinship)

In the anthropological study of kinship, a moiety is a descent group that coexists with only one other descent group within a society.

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Mount Marsabit

Marsabit is a 6300 km basaltic shield volcano in Kenya, located 170 km east of the center of the East African Rift, in Marsabit County near the town of Marsabit.

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Nilotic peoples

The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. Rendille people and Nilotic peoples are ethnic groups in Kenya.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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Oromo people

The Oromo people (pron. Oromo: Oromoo) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. Rendille people and Oromo people are Cushitic-speaking peoples and ethnic groups in Kenya.

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Pastoral society

A pastoral society is a social group of pastoralists, whose way of life is based on pastoralism, and is typically nomadic.

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Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage.

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Rendille language

Rendille (also known as Rendile, Randile) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Rendille people inhabiting northern Kenya.

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Sakuye people

The Sakuye are people living in Marsabit, Tana River, Mandera and Isiolo counties, as well as the Northern Frontier District.

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Samburu language

Samburu is a Maa language dialect spoken by Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya.

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Samburu people

The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. Rendille people and Samburu people are ethnic groups in Kenya.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Somali people

The Somali people (Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history. Rendille people and Somali people are Cushitic-speaking peoples and ethnic groups in Kenya.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendille_people

Also known as Genetic studies on Rendille people, Rendileh.

, Moiety (kinship), Mount Marsabit, Nilotic peoples, Nomad, Oromo people, Pastoral society, Patrilineality, Rendille language, Sakuye people, Samburu language, Samburu people, Sheep, Somali people, Swahili language, Waaq, William A. Chanler, Working language.

Rendille people, the Glossary

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Cushitic-speaking peoples

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