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Where is Ik spoken?

Ik is a Kuliak language, spoken in Kenya and Uganda. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Language families (largest ten)

Atlantic-Congo
Austronesian
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Nuclear Trans New Guinea
Otomanguean
Austroasiatic
Tai-Kadai
Pama-Nyungan

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Where Ik is spoken

Ik is spoken in 2 countries: Kenya and Uganda.

Country
Kenya
Uganda

On the map, Ik is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Ik.

How many people speak Ik?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Ik sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Ik as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

Kuliak
Ik

More about Ik

Codes: ISO 639-3 ikx, Glottolog ikkk1242. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Ik

Where is Ik spoken?

Ik is spoken in Kenya and Uganda. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

Which language family is Ik in?

Glottolog places Ik in the Kuliak family.