Do the Samburu peoples have Cushitic admixture?

[NourUgaas]

The Samburu tribe are a Nilotic tribe that inhabits Kenya's northern plains. They are a Maa-speaking group, and are very similar to the Maasai tribe.

Their features are not too different from Cushites.

 

[NourUgaas]

Their language sounds similar to Cushitic languages, even though they speak a Nilo Saharan language.

 

[Factz]

Samburu people are the only Maasai sub-tribe that penetrated deep into Kenya and intermarried/assimilated with the native southern Cushites which is why the Samburu people partially have Cushitic phenotypes and have some Cushitic loan words.

 

[guntiino101]

Their language sounds similar to Cushitic languages, even though they speak a Nilo Saharan language.

They're so beautiful

 

[esmailxxx]

Some of them you wont believe they are not somalis,if they spoke somali you wouldnt tell the difference,but they are nilotics right?
Some maasai think them and somalid are brother,they look different from bantus but not the same as somalis

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

Yes , they intermarry with Rendille.

 

[Apollo]

Samburu, Maasai, and Datog have large Cushitic ancestry.

True Nilotes look like Dinkas, Nuers, Anuak, Shilluk etc. Any group that looks Bantu or Cushitic and speaks Nilotic is mostly not Nilotic.

 

[samaalewarrior]

Yeah they have a lot of cushitic ancestry

 

[Hassan Garguute Buldanana]

@Geeljire sanbuur folks

 

[Geeljire Sandheer]

@Geeljire sanbuur folks

Haha

 

[Apollo]

Their language sounds similar to Cushitic languages, even though they speak a Nilo Saharan language.

Almost none of them are blue black, while Dinkas are 100% blue black.

 

[World]

A lot of them look Habesha to me.

 

[Apollo]

A lot of them look Habesha to me.

They probably have Omotic as well from Hamer tribes travelling into Northern Kenya in the past.. Omotic E's like E-M329 are found there.

 

[Prince Abubu]

They probably have Omotic as well from Hamer tribes travelling into Northern Kenya in the past.. Omotic E's like E-M329 are found there.

I don't get it. If omotics have so much Eurasian ancestry and haplogroups plus speak a AA language, why do they look so African?

 

[Apollo]

I don't get it. If omotics have so much Eurasian ancestry and haplogroups plus speak a AA language, why do they look so African?

They have much less Eurasian than other Horners, as low as 10%. Especially the tribal types. The Wolayta look more like generic Horners and have more through mixing with Oromos and Amharas.

By the way, E1b1a2-M329 is not an AA haplogroup. It is a palaeolithic Ethiopian lineage found in that pre-AA Ethiopian caveman. https://www.yfull.com/tree/E-V2403*/