| 释义 |
Turkana|tɜːˈkɑːnə|
[Native name.]
(A member of) an East African tribe living between Lake Rudolph and the Nile; their language. Also attrib.
1902H. Johnston Uganda Protectorate II. xx. 887 Turkana has a few more words in it betraying Hamitic..affinities. 1911[see Karamojo]. 1930C. G. Seligman Races of Africa vii. 161 The Masai and Turkana are nomadic herdsmen. 1959A. Moorehead No Room in Ark vii. 137 The local tribesmen—people like the Karamojong and the Turkana—have not taken to western civilization in the way nearly all other Africans are doing. 1963Times 7 June 12/3 Thirty-two Turkana tribesmen and women have been killed in inter-tribal fighting in Kenya's Eastern Region. 1977H. Innes Big Footprints i. i. 26 He's a Turkana. He was born up there and he's been back to Lake Rudolph many times. Ibid. 27 ‘Is that Turkana you're talking?’.. ‘No. A mixture of Samburu and Swahili.’ |