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'''Akie''' (Mosiro, Nandi, "[[Dorobo peoples|(N)dorobo]]",[{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.3 - Akie |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mosi1247 |access-date=2026-04-07 |website=glottolog.org}}] {{Langx|mwy|kuuti táá akie|label=Akie}} 'mouth of the Akie people'[{{Cite book |last=Heine |first=Bernd |url=https://tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/7502/files/B184_AALex58%2C%20SNL9.pdf |title=The Akie Language of Tanzania: A Sketch of Discourse Grammar |last2=König |first2=Christa |last3=Legère |first3=Karsten |date=2015 |publisher=Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa |location=Tokyo}}][{{Cite journal |last=König |first=Christa |last2=Heine |first2=Bernd |last3=Legère |first3=Karsten |date=2024-05-15 |title=Akie as a Language Island |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/16/2-3/article-p198_4.xml |journal=Journal of Language Contact |volume=16 |issue=2-3 |pages=198–215 |doi=10.1163/19552629-01602004 |issn=1877-4091}}]) is a [[Kalenjin languages|Kalenjin language]] spoken in [[Tanzania]]. It is a moribund [[endangered language]], with only a few elders who speak it. The [[Akie people]] have adopted [[Maasai language|Maasai]] and [[Swahili language|Swahili]], and it was reported in 1981 that younger generations are becoming less fluent in Akie.[{{Cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D10510%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |title=UNESCO Communication and Information: Akie |access-date=2018-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192034/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D10510%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}] No greater than 200 people speak Akie as of 2015.[{{Citation |last=Heine |first=Bernd |title=Current Research in African Studies: Papers in Honour of Mwalimu Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski |date=2014 |work= |pages=107–122 |url=https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/21285 |access-date=2026-04-07 |chapter=What does it mean to be an endangered language? The state of Akie, a Tanzanian language |place=Warsaw |publisher=Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa |last2=König |first2=Christa |last3=Legère |first3=Karsten}}] |
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'''Akie''' (Mosiro, Nandi, "[[Dorobo peoples|(N)dorobo]]",[{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.3 - Akie |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mosi1247 |access-date=2026-04-07 |website=glottolog.org}}] {{Langx|mwy|kuuti táá akie|label=Akie}} 'mouth of the Akie people'[{{Cite book |last=Heine |first=Bernd |url=https://tufs.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/7502/files/B184_AALex58%2C%20SNL9.pdf |title=The Akie Language of Tanzania: A Sketch of Discourse Grammar |last2=König |first2=Christa |last3=Legère |first3=Karsten |date=2015 |publisher=Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa |location=Tokyo}}][{{Cite journal |last=König |first=Christa |last2=Heine |first2=Bernd |last3=Legère |first3=Karsten |date=2024-05-15 |title=Akie as a Language Island |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/16/2-3/article-p198_4.xml |journal=Journal of Language Contact |volume=16 |issue=2-3 |pages=198–215 |doi=10.1163/19552629-01602004 |issn=1877-4091}}]) is a [[Kalenjin languages|Kalenjin language]] spoken in [[Tanzania]]. It is a moribund [[endangered language]], with only a few elders who speak it. The [[Akie people]] have adopted [[Maasai language|Maasai]] and [[Swahili language|Swahili]], and it was reported in 1981 that younger generations are becoming less fluent in Akie.[{{Cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D10510%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |title=UNESCO Communication and Information: Akie |access-date=2018-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192034/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D10510%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}] No more than 200 people speak Akie as of 2015.[{{Citation |last=Heine |first=Bernd |title=Current Research in African Studies: Papers in Honour of Mwalimu Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski |date=2014 |work= |pages=107–122 |url=https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/21285 |access-date=2026-04-07 |chapter=What does it mean to be an endangered language? The state of Akie, a Tanzanian language |place=Warsaw |publisher=Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa |last2=König |first2=Christa |last3=Legère |first3=Karsten}}] |
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