Pökoot (also known as
Pokot,
Päkot,
Pökot and in older literature as
Suk) is a language spoken in western
Kenya and eastern
Uganda by the
Pokot people. Pökoot is classified as the Northern branch of the
Kalenjin languages found in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The Pökoot are usually called
Kimukon by the other Kalenjin peoples. A 1994 figure of SIL puts the total number of speakers at 264,000, while the only little more recent Schladt (1997:40) gives the more conservative estimate of 150,000 people, presumably based on the figures found in Rottland (1982:26) who puts the number at slightly more than 115,000.