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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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    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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  • Mijikenda is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken along the coast of East Africa, mostly in Kenya, where there are 2.6 million speakers (2019 census) but also...
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    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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  • million (incl. Bukusu 1.2 million) Gusii 2.7 million Meru 2.0 million Mijikenda/Giriama ca. 1 million Nilotic Dholuo 5.0 million Kalenjin languages 4...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • located in Yosa District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Kaya (Mijikenda), a sacred forest site of the Mijikenda peoples in Kenya Kaya, South Sudan, a town in South...
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  • languages include Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, Mijikenda, spoken on the Kenyan coast; Comorian, in the Comoro Islands; and Mwani...
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  • classifying Digo as a dialect of Mijikenda, one of the constituent languages of the Sabaki group of Northeast Coast Bantu. The Mijikenda dialects are indeed mutually...
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    Maasai Samburu Ilchamus Turkana Borana Sakuye Orma Rendille Gabra Sengwer Mijikenda Jibana Giriama Duruma Chonyi Swahili Taita Taveta Okiek Kenyan Asians...
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    the area are the Digo, one of the nine ethnic communities known as the Mijikenda. Today the area includes Kenyans of various ethnicities who have migrated...
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    of Swahili's Bantu vocabulary has cognates in the Unguja, Pemba, and Mijikenda languages and, to a lesser extent, other East African Bantu languages...
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  • 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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  • local Mijikenda people, known as the Rabai (Warabai in Swahili). The forest has suffered deprevation over the past hundred years. Among the Mijikenda the...
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    Kisii, Meru, Kuria, Aembu, Ambeere, Wadawida-Watuweta, Wapokomo, and Mijikenda, among others. Notable prehistoric sites in the interior of Kenya include...
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    Bible translations into Nubian Mijikenda (formerly "Nyika"): Bible translations into the languages of Africa § Mijikenda/Nyika Occitan: Bible translations...
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    include the Kikuyu, the Kamba, the Luhya, the Kisii, the Meru, and the Mijikenda. In Kenya's last colonial census of 1962, population groups residing in...
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    (when it is further distilled) Kenya mnazi (which means coconut palm in Mijikenda) Kiribati karewe Libya لاقبي lāgbi [ˈlaːɡbi] Malaysia nira (Malay for...
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  • music composed in Mijikenda. The Mijikenda songs are carefully composed and can be understood and appreciated even by non-Mijikenda persons . Mzee Ngala...
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    million) Kamba (4 million) Meru (Kimeru) (2.7 million) Gusii (2 million) Mijikenda Taita Embu Mbeere Giriama Sesotho (1.8 million) Zulu (Isizulu) (300,000)...
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  • New Testament appearing in 1830. Johann Ludwig Krapf translated into Mijikenda languages. Oromo is one of the many languages of Ethiopia. The New Testament...
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  • name for the Kashmiri language Kashur or Kushur, the ancestors of the Mijikenda peoples according to the Book of the Zanj This disambiguation page lists...
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    Saghalla people speak Kisaghala, which is closely related to Kigiriama or Mijikenda, a language spoken by nine tribes. The Kasighau subgroup is closer to...
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    Nilotic expansion Urewe culture Thimlich Ohinga stone-built ruins Shungwaya Mijikenda Kayas (Fortified settlements) Indian Ocean trade route Swahili city-states...
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    square kilometre. The major communities living in Kilifi County include Mijikenda, Swahili, Bajuni, Indians, Arabs and Europeans. Kilifi County has a Christian...
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    Nilotic expansion Urewe culture Thimlich Ohinga stone-built ruins Shungwaya Mijikenda Kayas (Fortified settlements) Indian Ocean trade route Swahili city-states...
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    and say their prayers facing the mountain. Followers of the traditional Mijikenda religion have their holy shrines in the forests where they offer sacrifices...
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