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Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gikuyu: Gĩkũyũ) (also known as Gĩgĩkũyũ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Gĩkũyũ (Agĩkũyũ) of Kenya. Kikuyu is mainly spoken in the area between Nyeri , Nairobi and Nakuru .
In modern Kikuyu orthography, the voiced dental fricative is written th , the velar and palatal nasals are respectively as ng' and ny , and the vowels [e, ɛ, o, ɔ] are respectively written ĩ, e, ũ, o . [190] Armstrong's transcription of the Kikuyu words meaning: horse "mid, high, fairly-low—all level tones"
The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya , making them Kenya's largest ethnic group.
The Mwangwego alphabet is an abugida created in 1979 that is sometimes used to write the Chewa language and other languages of Malawi. The Mandombe script is an abugida that is used to write the Bantu languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , mainly by the Kimbanguist movement.
The Tartessian or Southwestern script is typologically intermediate between a pure alphabet and the Paleohispanic full semi-syllabaries. Although the letter used to write a stop consonant was determined by the following vowel, as in a full semi-syllabary , the following vowel was also written, as in an alphabet.
The Abagusii (also known as Kisii (Mkisii/Wakisii) in Swahili, or Gusii in Ekegusii) are a Bantu ethnic group indigenous to Kisii and Nyamira counties of former Nyanza, as well as parts of Kericho and Bomet counties of the former Rift Valley province of Kenya.
Monophthongs of Kenyan English on a vowel chart. [6]Like English in most of England, Kenyan English is non-rhotic.Major phonological features include the loss of length contrast in vowels, the lack of mid central vowels as with British English, the monophthongisation of diphthongs and the dissolving of consonant clusters. [2]
Jawi alphabet (for Malay and a number of other languages) [4] Cham script (for Cham language) [5] Eskayan script (for Eskayan language) [6] Kawi script (used across Maritime Southeast Asia) [7] Balinese script [8] Batak script [9] Baybayin [10] Buhid script [11] Hanunó'o script [12] Kulitan alphabet (for Kapampangan language) Tagbanwa script ...