Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ᶮdʑóː.ì(ꜜ)/
This ũ is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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njũi class 9/10 (plural njũi)

  1. African hunting dog, African wild dog

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References

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  1. ^ “njũi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxiv–xxv, 336. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
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