mũthanga

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mò.ðá.ᵑɡà(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũberethi, mũthamaki, thabina, njogoo, Mũthũngũ, rĩithori (pl. maithori), mũcemanio, kĩgokora, kĩroruha, ndagitari, and so on.[1][2]

Noun

mũthanga class 3 (plural mĩthanga)

sand, grit[3]

See also

tĩĩri, rĩũmba

References

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.
Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 234, 246.

“mũthanga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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