kĩgunyarĩrĩ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kèɣùɲàːɾèɾè(ꜜ)/
- This a is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a tetrasyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as kĩgunyaarĩrĩ, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
See also
References
- “kĩgunyarĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 124. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- 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.
- Kiruhi, Macharia (2006). Lessons in Kikuyu oral literature: Figures of Speech in Contemporary Use, pp. 65, 91. Ongata Rongai, Kenya: Cortraph. →ISBN
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