166,000 speakers. The name Mijikenda means "the nine settlements" or "the nine communities" and refers to the multiple language communities that make up...

Mijikenda ("the Nine Tribes") are a group of nine related Bantu ethnic groups inhabiting the coast of Kenya, between the Sabaki and the Umba rivers, in...

Mijikenda may refer to: Mijikenda peoples Mijikenda language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mijikenda. If an internal...

cognates in the Unguja, Pemba, and Mijikenda languages and, to a lesser extent, other East African Bantu languages. While opinions vary on the specifics...

A kaya (plural makaya or kayas) is a sacred site of the Mijikenda people in the former Coast Province of Kenya. Often located within sacred forests, a...

Gusii 2.7 million Meru 2.0 million Mijikenda/Giriama ca. 1 million Nilotic Dholuo 5.0 million Kalenjin languages 4.6 million (Kipsigis 1.9 million, Nandi...

Nubian Mijikenda (formerly "Nyika"): Bible translations into the languages of Africa § Mijikenda/Nyika Occitan: Bible translations into the languages of France...

whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name Nyika. Ilwana (Malakote) (E.701) Pokomo (E.71) Mijikenda (E.72–73) (North (Nyika)...

relatives include Comorian spoken on the Comoros Islands and the Mijikenda language of the Mijikenda people in Kenya. With its original speech community centred...

are national languages Gikuyu (8 million) Luhya (6.8 million) Kamba (4 million) Meru (Kimeru) (2.7 million) Gusii (2 million) Mijikenda Taita Embu Mbeere...

differentiating languages and dialects. Most contemporary authorities follow Nurse and Hinnebusch (1993) in classifying Digo as a dialect of Mijikenda, one of...

certain South Cushitic loanwords that are today found in the Bantu Mijikenda language are also of Taita Cushitic origin. He adds that these word-borrowings...

Cholmondeley, he edited A Nika-English Dictionary, on the subject of a Mijikenda language, and a translation of the Gospel of Luke, in Swahili. Sparshott's...

The Degere are a Mijikenda-speaking group of former hunter-gatherers of Kenya and Tanzania, now settled along the Ramisi, Mwena and Umba rivers, with...

clicks from a nearby language. Scattered clicks are found in ideophones and mimesis in other languages, such as Kongo /ᵑǃ/, Mijikenda /ᵑǀ/ and Hadza /ᵑʘʷ/...

various activities nyf, the ISO 639-3 code for Giryama, a variant of Mijikenda language New York Festivals, a collection of related annual arts and media...

Malagasy language by David Jones (missionary) and David Griffiths, with the New Testament appearing in 1830. Johann Ludwig Krapf translated into Mijikenda languages...

Luchazi Lumbu Lunda Lundwe Lungu Luunda Luvale Makoma Mambwe Mashasha Mashi Mijikenda Mbowe Mbukushu Mbumi Mbunda Mbwela Mukulu Mulonga Mwanga Namwanga Ndembu...

the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was Mombasa. It was inhabited by the Mijikenda and Swahili peoples, among others. The province covered an area of 79...

Chichonyi) is a Bantu language spoken along the eastern coast of Kenya in Kilifi County by the Chonyi people. It is part of the Mijikenda dialect cluster....

language spoken primarily along the East African coast near Tana River in the Tana River District by the Pokomo people of Kenya. Kipfokomo language originated...

The Segeju (Swahili: Wasegeju; Mijikenda: Asagidzu) are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group mostly based in Tanzania's Tanga Region (particularly Mkinga District)...

in linguistic investigations, especially into the Swahili, Mijikenda, and Chichewa languages. He returned to Germany only in 1875 for the final year of...

is classified under the Maa languages in the Eastern Nilotic language branch. It is closely related to the Samburu language (between 89% and 94% lexical...

sub-clans/tribes. Despite their proximity, they are not of the nearby Mijikenda people. They are predominantly agriculturalists and both freshwater and...

the nine ethnic groups that make up the Mijikenda (which literally translates to "nine towns"). The Mijikenda occupy the coastal strip extending from...

people speak Kisaghala, which is closely related to Kigiriama or Mijikenda, a language spoken by nine tribes. The Kasighau subgroup is closer to the Pare...

again by learning the languages of the local Mijikenda people and also Swahili which is an East African lingua franca language of communication. Soon...

"Details of the Mijikenda Tribe and People and their Culture in Kenya". Go Visit Kenya. Retrieved 17 October 2022. "Swahili (Language) – an overview |...

immigrant communities. The local communities include the Mijikenda, Swahili and Kenyan Arabs. The Mijikenda is the largest community in Mombasa County making...