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		The Gusii language (also known as Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania).
		Gusii is classified as a Central Bantu language, part of the subfamily of Kuria languages labeled E.10 in Guthrie's zonal classification of Bantu languages.
		Cammenga, Jelle (2002) Phonology and morphology of Ekegusii: a Bantu language of Kenya.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Gusii (189 words)

	Gusii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Gusii language, Ekegusii, is a Western Bantu language.
		Before British colonization, the Gusii lived in two separate groups: the homestead (omochie)— where a married man, his wives, and their unmarried daughters and uncircumcised sons lived, and the cattle camps (ebisarate) in the grazing areas—where most of the cattle were watched by resident male warriors.
		The traditional Gusii house (enyomba) was a round, windowless structure made of a framework of thin branches with dried mud walls and a conical thatched roof.
	www.everyculture.com /wc/Japan-to-Mali/Gusii.html (3119 words)

	Gusii
		The traditional Gusii house (enyomba) was a round, windowless structure with a framework of thin branches, walls of dried mull, and a conical, thatched roof.
		Gusii infants are raised to understand how to behave according to the codes of shame and respect that apply to their relationships to persons in adjacent generations.
		Gusii relationships with neighboring groups varied over time but were generally peaceful and cooperative with the Luo groups and perpetually hostile with the Kipsigis.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /anthro/faculty/fiske/135b/gusii.htm (3548 words)

	Emotional Learning in Infants: A Cross-Cultural Examination - The Natural Child Project
		For example, Gusii mothers watching videotapes of U.S. mothers were upset by how long it took these mothers to respond to infant crying.
		Although he used this term specifically in describing the Gusii of Kenya, aspects of this model apply to other cultures as well (and perhaps particularly to cultures in which infant mortality is still high or has only recently decreased).
		They do not see infants as capable of communicating or of understanding language and so do not engage in the type of stimulating face-to-face interactions with them that are seen among U.S. mothers and infants.
	www.naturalchild.com /research/emotional_learning_infants.html (3011 words)

	Welcome to Kisii.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Their region is one of the most densely populated areas of Kenya, and the Gusii constitute the country's sixth largest ethnic group, comprising around 6.3% of the national population.
		The ancestral Gusii population entered western Kenya from Uganda and then moved on from the foothills of Mount Elgon towards their present lands.
		In general Gusii culture is a blend of their own ancestral Bantu-speaking one of traits contributed by Luo speakers, and of lesser influences assimilated from the Maasai and Kipsigis
	www.kisii.com /site/abagusii.htm (878 words)

	Language Log: Language documentation
		Here at UCSD we regularly offer a two-quarter sequence of field methods, and for the past two years the instructors and students in the course have been working with a native speaker of Moro, a language of the Sudan that in 1982 was estimated to be spoken by a mere 30,000 people.
		By comparison, the Kenyan language Kisii/Gusii studied by Naomi Nagy and her students at UNH was estimated to be spoken by over a million and a half people in 1994.
		I offer this comparison not because I think either language is worth studying more than the other; both are underdocumented and I'm glad that this state of affairs is being remedied in both cases.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/003292.html (413 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gusii is an East Nyanza Bantu language (Guthrie’s classification E.42) spoken by at least one million people.
		Although, with respect to the number of speakers, the Gusii language still has a regional importance in Kenya, it is little known.
		He has widened our knowledge on the linguistic inventory and structure of the Gusii language considerably, understanding his grammatical description of Gusii as a direct continuation of Wilfred Whiteley’s pioneer work from 1956 and 1960 that, for a long time, had remained the only printed source of the language.
	www.koeppe.de /katalogE/3-89645-026-3.html (282 words)

	Gusii initiation - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		For the Gusii, the transition from childhood to adulthood is marked by group initiation ceremonies, culminating with circumcision for boys at around the age of twelve, and clitoridectomy for girls, at around the age of eight or nine.
		The Gusii have by far the highest proportion of circumcised women in any Kenyan society, with an estimated 97% of adult women having undergone the operation.
		Each girl going to be initiated would wake up her mother at dawn and ask for a hen or two shillings, as payment for the operator.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/gusii/initiation.htm (1563 words)

	Language
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
		A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
	www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html (462 words)

	The Suba of Kenya and Tanzania -- A Cultural Profile
		Language: Suba is a Bantu language related to Kuria in Kenya and Tanzania and Gusii in Kenya, and more distantly to Kikuyu.
		The Suba language is written in Latin characters, as are all the neighboring languages.
		Perhaps this is due in part to not having the Scriptures in their own "heart language." Luo Suba should be able to lead the Bible well, but many lack incentive and need teachers to help understand it.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/suba.html (2247 words)

	Kenya Tribe's a brief description by Sopon Safaris
		The Gusii inhabit an area in the western highlands, east of Lake Victoria, forming a small Bantu-speaking island in a mostly Nilotic-speaking area.
		The Gusii family typically consists of a man, his wives and their married sons, all of whom live together in a single compound.
		The Pokot are Kalenjin by language and tradition, but their diet is dominated by meat, supplemented with blood drawn from cattle, milk and honey.
	www.naturesalbum.com /Safari/tribes.htm (3210 words)

	Gusii language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gusii language (also known as Kisii or Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania).
		It is spoken by the Gusii people, numbering about 1.5 million (SIL/Ethnologue 1994).
		Whiteley, Wilfred H. A practical introduction to Gusii.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gusii_language (260 words)

	Talk to Me
		Gekonde is speaking in Kisii (or Gusii), one of more than 30 languages spoken in his homeland of Kenya.
		They are trying to create a systematic written record of a language that is dying out even as it is being recorded for the first time.
		Then she wows them with the truth: The world is home to 6,000 languages; 4,000 of them, like Kisii, are undocumented, and most are also considered "endangered." Some linguists predict that 90 percent of the world's languages will be extinct within 100 years or so.
	www.unh.edu /users/unh/admin/alumni/magazine/f06/talk_to_me.html (615 words)

	Kenya People & Kenya Language - Africa - Kenya Languages - Kenya Dialects - Kenya Swahili - Kenya Kiswahili - Kenya ...
		Each of these groups has their own language; some 45 languages (not dialects) are spoken in Kenya and for most Kenyans, their mother tongue is their tribal language.
		Swahili (or more properly Ki-Swahili), a language originating on the east African coast is the national language and spoken as a second language by almost all Kenyans.
		English, the official language, is widely spoken and taught in all schools and is the medium of instruction at all the universities, corporation and government business.
	www.africanmeccasafaris.com /kenya/guide/kenyapeopleandlangs.asp (1215 words)

	UNH Linguistics in the Media!
		It's good training for language teaching/learning, and helps students pull together all they've learned in their LING classes, but it's also a valuable skill for helping documenting the ~4000 undocumented (and mostly endangered) languages of the world.
		This semester, several reporters came to the class, which is working on Kisii (or Gusii), using language samples provided by Henry Gekonde, a MA student in our Linguistics program.
		Kisii is a language spoken in Kenya which is virtually unwritten (a bible exists and a couple kids' storybooks) and about whose grammar very little has been written (as far as we can find out).
	www.unh.edu /linguistics/events/media.htm (387 words)

	Kwavi, Baraguyu and Maasai -- Dialects, Historical Names and Ethnicities
		The term is associated with the Maasai culture and language.
		More recent analyis provided for this update has shown that what was previously called Kwavi and listed as separate language is actually the same speech as the Parakuyo (Baraguyu) dialect of the Maasai language.
		Language can be shown as Maasai with the language code mas.
	orvillejenkins.com /peoples/kwavibaraguyumaasai.html (1340 words)

	Gusii introduction - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Until the ravages of AIDS hit western Kenya, the Gusii also had one of the fastest growing populations in the world.
		To be honest, the multiple paradox that is the Gusii only began to make sense to me while I was working on this website section.
		Indeed, some might even say that all these problems are what made the Gusii who they are today: some of the most charming, open and friendly people I was to come across in Kenya.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/gusii (664 words)

	The Maasai
		The Maasai are sometimes called Nilo-Hamitic (the Hamites came from north Africa) and all Maasai tribes share the Maa language (hence their name Maasai; they share the Maa language with the Samburu tribe from whom they split some time ago).
		The missionaries were keen to convert tribes to Christianity, halt slave trading and stop some of the Maasai practices which they perceived as barbaric (such as dressing almost naked and leaving their dead for wild animals to scavenge rather than having a burial ceremony).
		Already under great pressure from foreign influence and some inter-tribal warfare, the Maasai were deeply affected when rinderpest (a cattle disease) struck their herds around 1880-1890; the reduced grazing led to more woodland which encouraged breeding of the harmful Tse tse fly.
	www.masai-mara.com /mmmaa.htm (2192 words)

	Fon language resources
		Ghotuo language Gikuyu language Gonja language Grusi languages Gur languages Gusii language H Haya language Herero...
		Ewe is one of the better documented languages of Africa, partly due to the...
		Fon (native name F?ngbe) is part of the Gbe language cluster and belongs to the Kwa sub-family of the Niger-Congo languages.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Fon.html (1176 words)

	Kenya National Commission on Human Rights: OUR LEADERS MUST WATCH THEIR LANGUAGE AS THEY CAMPAIGN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		While it is the right of politicians to campaign, and indeed campaign vigorously for the causes they support, it is imperative that their campaigns do not cross the line into incitement to violence, hate speech, unsavoury and distasteful language.
		It is possible to make a point without inciting or denigrating others for whatever reasons, for they too have their reasons for supporting whatever side they choose.
		With the kind of language used by politicians, it is therefore of little surprise that our country is bedeviled with violence, crime and intolerance-both political and personal; if our politicians breach the law, why shouldn’t the public do so?
	www.knchr.org /referendumsite/language.html (1248 words)

	CBOLD Bibliography: full citations
		Notes from source: This collection is mainly devoted to papers on language use and language in education, with a useful introductory chapter on the classification and distribution of Kenyan languages.
		A grammar of the Mpongwe language, with vocabularies
		Languages of Africa: comparisons between the Mandingo, Grebo and Mpongwe dialects.
	www.linguistics.berkeley.edu /~jblowe/CBOLD/Bibs/BibAu.51.html (1264 words)

	GUSII language
		There are no other spoken languages and dialects with the same ISO language code as GUSII.
		See also the alphabetical language list and full country list.
		Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org.
	globalrecordings.net /language/1063 (148 words)

	Heinemann Books: Girl Cases
		In an era of increasing bridewealth and stagnating wages, Gusii elders increasing turned to the native courts to control both young women and young men.
		Employing a sophisticated methodology for mining the transcripts of the regions local courts, Shadle uncovers precious detail on the changing meanings of marriage and strategies of young women and men to define their own futures.
		Gusii women and their lovers remained committed to traditional bridewealth marriage, but they raised deeper questions over the relations between men and women.
	books.heinemann.com /products/E07094.aspx (387 words)

	Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln - Phonology and Morphology of Ekegusii, ISBN: 978-3-89645-026-5
		Gusii ist eine östliche Bantusprache, die in Kenia zwischen dem östlichen Ufer des Viktoria-Sees (Lake Nyanza) und dem östlichen Zweig des Riftvalleys von mindestens einer Million Einwohner gesprochen wird.
		Gusii gehört ebenso wie seine Nachbarsprachen Logooli (E.41), Luyia (E.32) und Suba (um nur einige zu nennen) zu den Ost-Nyanza-Sprachen — einem Sprach- und Dialektkontinuum östlich des Viktoria-Sees.
		Da Gusii Einflüssen aus anderen Bantusprachen und nilotischen Sprachen unterlag, stellt es ein besonders interessantes Forschungsobjekt dar.
	www.koeppe.de /katalog/katalog_detail.php?ISBN=978-3-89645-026-5&lan=en (276 words)

	African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings - Meetings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He also said that Gusii proverbs could be used to capture the history and culture of the community, two aspects that are being threatened by interaction with international, regional or national languages.
		Sheng language was coined by the youth of the city as a result of the failure to communicate in any of their different ethnic languages.
		The language is therefore of blend of various languages such as English, Swahili and other Kenyan languages with Swahili being the main donor of words.
	www.afriprov.org /resources/meetings.htm (12478 words)

	Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: Population and culture: Tribes and languages
		The Paranilotic languages in Kenya are divided in three groups: Teso, Maasai and Kalenjin.
		The Nilotic languages, also spoken in Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania, belong to the family of Nilo-Saharian languages.
		Finally, Cushites are mainly shepherds speaking Somali or Galla, languages that belong to the Afro-Asian family of tongues that originated in northern Africa and the Middle East.
	www.kenyalogy.com /eng/info/pobla4.html (209 words)

	African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings - Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bukusu is a language used in western Kenya.
		Gusii is a language used in Southwestern Kenya.
		The Gusii people articulated philosophies of life that were communicated through riddles, folktales, songs, poems and proverbs that were kept a live through oral transmission from generation to generation.
	www.afriprov.org /resources/bibliogr.htm (2400 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

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