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1259:. Tenses include past, present, or future; and remote, near, or current. Aspects include habitual/imperfective, completive, perfect, and progressive, which is unmarked. Sequential, a subtype of progressive, denotes events that occur in a sequence. There is also a marker for persistive events, which occur continuously until the time of speaking. Special subject agreement particles exist for 1st and 2nd person, the discourse participants, but subject agreement is otherwise based on noun class. A verb can exhibit noun class agreement for all arguments, but agrees less commonly with non-human nouns. 1840: 466: 1113:, a few body parts, and semantically unrelated others. Class 10 is the same, but plural. Because words of these classes begin with nasal or unnasalizable consonants, and lose their nasality when marked with a different class prefix, the proposed prefix is nasalization. This prefix cannot always be applied to loanwords. 2136: 1230:
Numerals 11-19 are formed with the construction 'ten and X'. The final numeral, if it inflects, agrees with the noun being counted. However, if the final numeral is 1, it agrees with the singular class of the noun being counted, because 1 is singular, even if the overall number being formed is not.
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Class 5 (prefix rĩ- if stem is vowel initial, i- if consonant-initial) comprises plant/landscape words and others that don't fix the pattern, and is singular. Class 6 (prefix ma-) comprises the same words, but is plural. Occasionally, class 6 nouns have the prefix marĩ-, perhaps because the class 5
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Class 11 (prefix rũ-) comprises long, thin, or string-like nouns, as well as others that don't fit the pattern. Its default plural is class 10, with occasional class 6 forms. It is hypothesized that if the prefix rũ- is added to a stem that already begins with rũ, the prefix is deleted. The class
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Adjectives are comparatively rare, and don't cover even every color. Qualities are usually expressed instead as associative constructions, which connect two nouns or noun phrases where the first noun (head) is modified by the second. The associative is formed by prefixing the stem a with the
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may take the place of a noun or a noun phrase. Since person and noun class are marked on verbs, they are usually only used emphatically or in response to questions. Except for those of classes 3 and 14, the pronouns are formed by adding agreement class prefixes to the stem o.
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class with some inherent, not especially augmented members. Class 8 (prefix ci- if stem is vowel initial, i- if consonant initial) is the same, but plural. These classes' prefixes can be used to augment nouns of other classes.
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with the noun via adjective class prefixes (usually identical to the noun class prefixes). Other modifiers do so via agreement class prefixes, which are often simply the vowel of the noun class prefix.
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class with some inherent, not especially diminutive members. Class 13 (prefix tũ-) is the same, but plural. These classes' prefixes can be used to diminutize nouns of other classes.
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Class 3 (prefix mũ-) comprises nature/landscape words and others that are not semantically related, and is singular. Class 4 (prefix mĩ-) comprises the same words, but is plural.
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6/11 plurals vary just as the Class 5/6 plurals do: the Class 6 prefix, ma-, attaches sometimes to the noun stem itself, and sometimes to the class 11 form.
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class. Class 17 (prefix kũ-/gũ-) is an indefinite locative class. These classes can be singular or plural based on context.
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Class 14 (null prefix) comprises abstract concepts and semantically unrelated others, and is pluralized by class 6.
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form is reanalyzed as the stem. Nouns of classes 1, 9, 11, 12, 14, and 15 can be pluralized with the class 6 form.
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pronoun is formed by adding the relevant possessive stem to the agreement class prefix of the possessed noun.
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The Kikuyu from Kĩrĩnyaga are composed of two main sub-dialects – the Ndia and Gichugu who speak the dialects
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agreement class prefix of the head noun. It can also denote possession, location, and ordinal numerals.
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In addition to active and passive voices, there is a middle voice with an intermediate connotation.
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forms. Relative pronouns are written identically to distal demonstratives, but are distinguished by
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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switch easily to other Kikuyu dialects in conversation with the rest of the Kikuyu.
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districts are divided along the traditional boundaries of these dialects, which are
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The prenasalised consonants are often pronounced without prenasalisation, and thus
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Class 15 (prefix gũ- if stem is t, k, c, or th initial, kũ- otherwise) comprises
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are formed by adding the relevant agreement class prefix to the relative stem.
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Class 12 (prefix ga- if stem is t, k, c, or th initial, ka- otherwise) is a
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Class 7 (prefix gĩ- if stem is t, k, c, or th initial, kĩ- otherwise) is an
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There is notable literature written in the Kikuyu language. For instance,
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The unmistakable tonal patterns of the Gichũgũ dialect (which sounds like
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terms and some other words belong to these classes but take no prefixes.
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Kikuyu has two level tones (high and low), a low-high rising tone, and
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Kihara, Claudius P. "Middle and Antipassive Voices in Gĩkũyũ (E51)."
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
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Kikuyu is written in a Latin alphabet. It does not use the letters
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Muigwithania 2.0 – First Kikuyu Newspaper revived on the Internet
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Narrow Bantu languages by Guthrie classification zone templates
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pronouns, which can coexist in that order, and subsequently
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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a b c d e g h i ĩ j k m n o r t u ũ w y
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Kikuyu has four main mutually intelligible dialects. The
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Index

Gikuyu language
[ɣēkōjó]
Kenya
Central Province
Agĩkũyũ
Language family
Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Northeast Bantu
Temi
Writing system
Latin script
ISO 639-1
ki
ISO 639-2
kik
ISO 639-3
kik
Glottolog
kiku1240
Guthrie code
IPA
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Unicode

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