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	Gikuyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Gikuyu is spoken by the Kikuyu people who believe that a man, Gikuyu, was the founder of the tribe.
		The Kikuyu language is spoken by many people of other tribes and is commonly heard in Nairobi along with Swahili.
		Kikuyu commonly speak Swahili and English is quite common.
	www.flw.com /languages/gikuyu.htm (59 words)

	Kikuyu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kĩkũyũ was the most active ethnic group during the fight for Kenyan independence, with many of the Mau-Mau being drawn from their number.
		It is part of the Bantu group of languages.
		Many Kikuyu have moved from Kikuyuland to other parts of the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kikuyu (377 words)

	Sametalker
		The languages and countries of origin of the talkers are given in Table 1.
		It was formerly used as a trade language between Africans and Arabs, and is now widely spoken as a second language, and often used in primary education.
		Most were identified accurately as representing the same language, but the Kikuyu same-language pairs were difficult (56%) as were the Swahili same-language pairs as produced by one of the talkers (38%).
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~bond/Sametalker.htm (2016 words)

	Emergency In Kenya: Kikuyu And The Mau Mau Insurrection
		The Kikuyu naturally saw the intrusion of the railway construction crews, the traders of the British East Africa Company and the soldiers of the British crown as an invasion of their territory and a threat to their existence.
		When the Kikuyu attempted to move back onto their land in later years, the first major conflict between fls and whites occurred, and continued as an issue of contention and distrust for decades thereafter.32 During the first decade of the 20th Century, the mass immigration of European settlers was vertually unchallenged by the African people.
		The Kikuyu Reserve, which was the closest of the native reserves to Nairobi, was increasingly pressed by both the post-war immigration growth and their own "natural" population increase.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/HRD.htm (14531 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kikuyu
		Kikuyu, Bantu-speaking people who make up the largest tribal group in Kenya.
		Bantu languages, one of its branches, have nearly 100 million speakers....
		Following World War I, protests against settler supremacy and the policies of the colonial government emerged among Kenyan Africans.
	encarta.msn.com /Kikuyu.html (91 words)

	African Languages - Chewa, Nyanja, Kikuyu, Kpelle - (ASC)(MSU)
		This language belongs to the Nyanja Group of Bantu (Guthrie G30) and is spoken in Malawi (where it is known as Chewa or Chichewa) and in Zambia (where it is known as Nyanja or Chinyanja).
		Nyanja is an official language in Zambia, a lingua franca in Lusaka.
		Kikuyu (technically, Gikuyu) (Guthrie E51) belongs to the Kamba-Kikuyu subgroup of Bantu and is spoken in an area extending from Nairobi to the southern and southwestern slopes of Mt. Kenya, in Kenya.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language4.htm (372 words)

	Which Language: A Question Of Either/Or? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In learning a language, one adopts a "language ego" which refers to the way in which one's self-concept and sense of self-esteem are intertwined with language and the degree to which, in language transactions, one's ego is exposed.
		The language practices identified in the three families were accorded differential status and power by individuals within each family, the community in which they lived, and the schools the children attended.
		As English was the dominant language of the outer environment, it was inevitable that fluency and mastery of English was at the expense of the imminent loss of the mother tongue for these families.
	educ.queensu.ca /~landl/new2/archives/vol51papers/0303_bah_bal/index.htm (7942 words)

	Kikuyu introduction - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Yet I am aware that although traditional Kikuyu culture could at first glance be seen as dead and buried, there are notable exceptions where aspects of traditional culture and society have changed and adapted rather than disappeared, as is the case with the admission into a new form of 'elderhood' of Christian priests.
		Language: Kikuyu (Gikuyu), though most are trilingual, also speaking Kiswahili and English.
		Apart from the city of Nairobi, where the Kikuyu form the majority, their major towns are Timau, Nanyuki and Naro Moru to the northwest of Mount Kenya, and Nyeri, Murang'a and Kerugoya to the southwest.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/kikuyu (987 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bantu languages (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Bantu languages, group of African languages forming a subdivision of the Benue-Niger division of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see African languages).
		The most important is Swahili (see Swahili language), spoken as a first language by more than 30 million people, chiefly in Kenya, Tanzania, Congo (Kinshasa), and Uganda.
		As the chief trade language of E Africa, it is understood by perhaps an additional 20 million.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bantulan.html (447 words)

	Kikuyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Kikuyu history says that the Kikuyu God, Ngai, took Gikuyu to the top of Kirinyaga and told him to stay and build his home there.
		It was from the nine daughters that the nine (occaisionally a tenth) Kikuyu clans -Achera, Agachiku, Airimu, Ambui, Angare, Anjiru, Angui, Aithaga, and Aitherandu- were formed.
		In the Kikuyu culture family identity is carried on by naming the first boy after the father’s father and the second after the mother’s father.
	emuseum.mnsu.edu /cultural/oldworld/africa/kikuyu.html (513 words)

	Tim and Lara Beth's Kenya Page - Kikuyu
		The Kikuyu migrated to their present location about four centuries ago and are Kenya's largest ethnic group.
		The Kikuyu are heavily agricultural, growing bananas, sugercane, arum lily, yams, beans, millet, maize, fl beans and a variety of vegetables.
		Pots are made by the Kikuyu for a variety of domestic uses, and were also used for barter in the past.
	www.blissites.com /kenya/people/kikuyu.html (507 words)

	Ethnologue: Kenya
		In Somalia the Ajuran speak a variety of Common Somali as mother tongue, and the Garre apparently speak a language related to Somali.
		(GIGIKUYU, KIKUYU, GEKOYO) [KIU] 5,347,000 (1994 I. Larsen BTL) or 19.8% of the population (1987).
		They have maintained their language in spite of change in economy and pressure from other languages.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Keny.html (3645 words)

	KI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ki or Ti is the Hawaiian language name for the plant Cordylene terminalis.
		In the Japanese language, Ki is an abbreviation for Kitai = "type" or "model" in the Japanese Air Force when specifying types of aircraft.
		The heroine of Tower of Druaga and its sequels is named Ki (in which case the word is pronounced "Kai").
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ki (221 words)

	kikuyu to english translation services, english to kikuyu translation services, kikuyu language translation services, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Whether your Kikuyu translation requirement comprises of a website, a company brochure, a manual or a letter or contract, as a provider of translations in over 140 languages, we are able to help.
		Kikuyu translations are carried out by qualified and experienced professional translators, working exclusively into their mother tongue in order to guarantee fluency and professionalism.
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	www.absolutetranslations.com /english-into-kikuyu-translation-services.htm (335 words)

	Kikuyu language resources
		Kikuyu: Njogu ni gacuhura "The beer is a thing that unties (the tongue)." When the wine is in the wit is out.
		Kikuyu grass (Pennisetum clandestinum) is widely used as a grazing pasture in Africa and, although i...
		In the late summer and autumn of 1980 kikuyu poisoning of cattle was diagnosed on 9 farms in New Sou...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Kikuyu.html (907 words)

	Ibo (Igbo) Tribe - Free Articles
		The Kikuyu tribe was originally founded by a
		In the Kikuyu culture boys and girls are raised very differently.
		In the Kikuyu culture family identity is carried on by naming the first boy
	www.keciasworld.com /gikuyutribe.html (553 words)

	African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings - Meetings
		She said she has collected more than 90 proverbs from the Bukusu community related to food and nutrition and that she had some difficulties with Kikuyu proverbs given that she is not a native speaker of the language, having learnt it through her marriage to a Kikuyu.
		Quoting Kikuyu proverbs and their biblical parallels, he said that proverbs are as applicable today as they were used a hundred years ago, only that the context are different.
		One Kikuyu word that was thought as a candidate for inclusion into the English language soon is mwaki, a term that is currently being used all over East and Central African to refer to small Christian communities.
	www.afriprov.org /resources/1meetings.htm (8092 words)

	African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings - Meetings
		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.
		Wanjohi, in analyzing the story and the way it is rendered in Kikuyu on the radio, said that Githingithia may not know that the story has all the literary properties of a piece of art such as plot, characters and unity in plot.
	www.afriprov.org /resources/meetings1.htm (9566 words)

	Kikuyu Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The Kikuyu people are at the very least bilingual - speaking their tribal language of Kikuyu as well as the Kenyan tongue of Kiswahili.
		On top of Kikuyu and Kiswahili, many of the Kikuyu, especially the younger generations, speak English.
		English is now being taught in many of the schools as it is also an official language in Kenya.
	www.kukummi.org /Stories/language.html (73 words)

	Kikuyu language Definition / Kikuyu language Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Gikuyu (sometimes written 'Kikuyu', pronounced 'Gĩkũyũ') is a language in the Central Bantu branch of the Niger-CongoThe Niger-Congo languages are probably the largest group of the world in terms of different languages.
		Some of the African languages with the largest number of speakers belong to it.
		A common property of many Niger-Congo languages is the use of a noun class system....
	www.elresearch.com /Kikuyu_language (213 words)

	Kenya Reports: Radio Interference
		And given that the proposed legislation is almost certainly aimed at a station that broadcasts in the language of the Kikuyu people, steadfast Moi opponents, it also highlights the country's complex ethnic politics.
		By the most generous estimates, only 69 percent of the population is literate, meaning they have mastered the basics of reading and writing in at least one language (only about 40 percent of women can read and write in any language).
		Thousands of Kikuyu, Luo, Luhyia, and Kisii farmers were branded as "foreigners" and expelled from the Rift Valley Province, Kenya's breadbasket.
	www.cpj.org /Briefings/2000/Kenya_sept00/Kenya_sept00.html (774 words)

	Kikuyu translation, English to Kikuyu translation, Kikuyu to English translation, Kikuyu web site translation, Kikuyu ...
		Professional translators whose native language is Kikuyu perform our English to Kikuyu translation.
		They have in-depth understanding of the subject matter and solid mastering of the Kikuyu language including its spelling, grammar, and cultural appropriateness.
		Kikuyu (technically, Gikuyu) belongs to the Kamba-Kikuyu subgroup of Bantu and is spoken in an area extending from Nairobi to the southern and southwestern slopes of Mt. Kenya, in Kenya.
	www.wintranslation.com /languages/kikuyu.html (337 words)

	The Aurabesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		For example, the lettering on the canopy coaming of the Royal Naboo N-1 starfighters in The Phantom Menace is taken directly from the Armenian language and its unique alphabet (the font shown is called "Sassoun"), and Nien Nunb's lines in Return of the Jedi were actual phrases from the Kikuyu language indigenous to East Africa.
		Basic was developed several millenia ago as a common diplomatic and trade language by the major human population groups of the Old Republic, becoming the primary language of many population groups, human and non-human alike, in most of the better-travelled sectors of the Galaxy.
		Over the centuries, the pronunciation used by well-educated members of Coruscant's upper-class became widely regarded as the definitive form of "correct" Basic: a mark of culture and privilege, it was adopted by the social elite of myriad worlds from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim.
	www.geocities.com /taopari/Aurabesh.html (830 words)

	Search Results for Kikuyu - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Kenyatta was born as Kamau, son of Ngengi, at Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya in the East African highlands.
		His father was a leader of a small Kikuyu agricultural settlement.
		From about 1890 to 1960, East African ethnic groups were usually classified according to the affinities of the languages that they spoke.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Kikuyu&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (381 words)

	Edinburgh University Library: Barlow, Arthur Ruffell
		His interest in and grasp of the Kikuyu language and dialects meant he was often employed as a translator and his intimate knowledge of the Kikuyu people made him a trusted counsellor.
		Barlow's work with the Kikuyu language continued, he prepared a grammar which became a standard and initiated a bible translation.
		His knowledge of the language and culture and interest in questions such as land reform and the rights of Africans meant that he was also often consulted on African matters by government.
	www.mundus.ac.uk /cats/1/51.htm (868 words)

	Kikuyu . Swahili language . Ngugi wa Thiongo . Jomo Kenyatta . Gikuyu language . Kenya . Dedan Kimathi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Kenya s third president is also a Kikuyu named Mwai Kibaki who won the 2002 elections in a landslide against ex-president Daniel Arap Moi.
		The famous Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiongo Ngũgĩ wa Thiong o is a Kĩkũyũ who now writes exclusively in Gikuyu language Gĩkũyũ and Swahili language Swahili.
		He lives in Islamabad, working as the news editor of Dawn_ newspaper Dawn, the most prestigious English language daily newspaper of Pakistan.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Kikuyu (484 words)

	Peace Corps \| World Wise Schools \| Water in Africa \| Stories \| Kenya
		The Kikuyu people will not let a visitor leave their house without serving them chai.
		Over the years the Kkuyus have discontinued most of their traditional practices and ceremonies, but one water-related tradition is still remembered by the older members of the village.
		The Kikuyus have long believed that rain is a blessing from God.
	www.peacecorps.gov /wws/water/africa/countries/kenya/waterculture.html (1739 words)

	Language and Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Complicated questions of language and identity have increasingly come to dominate the most recent phase of twentieth-century British literature.
		Britain may have been "kicked out" of many of its former colonies as a governing presence, but English was rarely shown the door at the same time.
		The Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney is a kind of internal outsider, since, as he has written, he does not consider himself to be part of "British" literature as ordinarily defined, while he nonetheless writes English poetry deeply influenced by English poets from Milton to Wordsworth to Eliot.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/damrosch_awl/chapter7/medialib/language.html (940 words)

	Kikuyu language translator, Kikuyu website translator and localization, English to Kikuyu, Kikuyu to English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Considering the growing competion in the global economy, Kikuyu is becoming an important language to reach out to the potential customers in Africa.
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	www.multilinguistworld.com /translations/kikuyu_languages_translator.htm (268 words)

	Africa Book Centre Ltd Kikuyu
		A beginner's guide to the language looking at noun classes, verbs and other essential grammar. Each chapter include exercises and vocabulary. viii, 60pp, KENYA. KENYA LITERATURE BUREAU,
		Reprint of the 1955 edition. A short grammar which looks at the main structural and phonological issues which need to be mastered in order to progress in the language. Each chapter details a particular aspect of the morphology such as tenses and noun classes. Includes exercises and their key. 156pp, NAIROBI. MACMILLAN KENYA, 9966885617
		The Kikuyu verison of the novel DEVIL ON THE CROSS. 262pp, KENYA. EAST AFRICA, 9966461396
	www.africabookcentre.com /acatalog/Kikuyu.html (133 words)

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