AFRIKAANS-ENGLISH

Some Basic Facts about the Kikuyu Language

Book information

Language
afrikaans-english
Format
PDF
Filesize
848 kB (868118 bytes)
Pages
\10
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Африканские языки;Языки банту;

Description

Author: N/A Publisher: Seth Cable Publication date: 2010 Number of pages: 10Gikuyu or Kikuyu (Gikuyu: Gĩkũyũ, pronounced [ɣēkōjó]) is a language of the Bantu family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people of Kenya. Numbering about 6 million (22% of Kenya's population), they are the largest ethnic group in Kenya. Gikuyu is spoken in the area between Nyeri and Nairobi. Gikuyu is one of the five languages of the Thagichu subgroup of the Bantu languages, which stretches from Kenya to Tanzania. The Gikuyu people usually identify their lands by the surrounding mountain ranges in Central Kenya which they call Kirinyaga.

Similar books