166,000 speakers. The name Mijikenda means "the nine settlements" or "the nine communities" and refers to the multiple language communities that make up...
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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...
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Mijikenda may refer to: Mijikenda peoples Mijikenda language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mijikenda. If an internal...
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cognates in the Unguja, Pemba, and Mijikenda languages and, to a lesser extent, other East African Bantu languages. While opinions vary on the specifics...
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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...
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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...
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Nubian Mijikenda (formerly "Nyika"): Bible translations into the languages of Africa § Mijikenda/Nyika Occitan: Bible translations into the languages of France...
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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)...
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Swahili people (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
relatives include Comorian spoken on the Comoros Islands and the Mijikenda language of the Mijikenda people in Kenya. With its original speech community centred...
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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...
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differentiating languages and dialects. Most contemporary authorities follow Nurse and Hinnebusch (1993) in classifying Digo as a dialect of Mijikenda, one of...
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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...
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Thomas Henry Sparshott (category CS1 Swahili-language sources (sw))
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...
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Degere (redirect from Old Degere language)
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...
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Click consonant (redirect from Click language)
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/...
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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...
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Malagasy language by David Jones (missionary) and David Griffiths, with the New Testament appearing in 1830. Johann Ludwig Krapf translated into Mijikenda languages...
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Luchazi Lumbu Lunda Lundwe Lungu Luunda Luvale Makoma Mambwe Mashasha Mashi Mijikenda Mbowe Mbukushu Mbumi Mbunda Mbwela Mukulu Mulonga Mwanga Namwanga Ndembu...
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Coast Province (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
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...
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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....
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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...
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The Segeju (Swahili: Wasegeju; Mijikenda: Asagidzu) are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group mostly based in Tanzania's Tanga Region (particularly Mkinga District)...
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Johannes Rebmann (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
in linguistic investigations, especially into the Swahili, Mijikenda, and Chichewa languages. He returned to Germany only in 1875 for the final year of...
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Ilchamus people (redirect from Camus language)
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...
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Pokomo people (category Mijikenda)
sub-clans/tribes. Despite their proximity, they are not of the nearby Mijikenda people. They are predominantly agriculturalists and both freshwater and...
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Giriama people (category Mijikenda)
the nine ethnic groups that make up the Mijikenda (which literally translates to "nine towns"). The Mijikenda occupy the coastal strip extending from...
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Taita people (section Language)
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...
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Johann Ludwig Krapf (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
again by learning the languages of the local Mijikenda people and also Swahili which is an East African lingua franca language of communication. Soon...
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"Details of the Mijikenda Tribe and People and their Culture in Kenya". Go Visit Kenya. Retrieved 17 October 2022. "Swahili (Language) – an overview |...
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Mombasa County (category Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text)
immigrant communities. The local communities include the Mijikenda, Swahili and Kenyan Arabs. The Mijikenda is the largest community in Mombasa County making...
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