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Maasai vs Samburu - What's the difference?

maasai | samburu |

As proper nouns the difference between maasai and samburu

is that maasai is an indigenous group of people located in Kenya and Tanzania while Samburu is an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.

As a noun Samburu is

a member of this ethnic group.

maasai

English

(wikipedia Maasai)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • An indigenous group of people located in Kenya and Tanzania.
  • An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Masai people.
  • samburu

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun) (wikipedia Samburu)
  • An ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.
  • Their Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language.
  • Noun

    (Samburu)
  • A member of this ethnic group.