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Preferred term

kikGikuyu  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Gikuyu or Kikuyu (, pronounced ) 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.

Entry terms

  • Gikuyu language
  • Kikuyu

ISO 639-1 code

  • ki

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • kik

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • kik

ISO 639-3 code

  • kik

Notation

  • kik

In other languages

  • kikuyu

    French

  • Kikuyu
  • Kikuyu

    German

  • Kikuyu-Sprache
  • kikuyu

    Italian

  • quicuio

    Portuguese

  • Língua kikuyu
  • kikuyu

    Spanish

  • Idioma kikuyu

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kik

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