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Gikuyu

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Word	Definition
kiswahilinoun	Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
chichewanoun	The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca.
niloticnoun	A group of languages spoken in parts of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
lugandanoun	A Bantu language spoken mostly in Uganda.
bantunoun	(uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
setswananoun	A language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
swahilinoun	An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.
lingalanoun	A Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic.
tswananoun	The Bantu language of these people; Setswana.
cushiticnoun	A subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages.
sothonoun	A group of closely related Bantu lects spoken in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zambia.
kinyarwandanoun	The dialect Rwanda of the Rwanda-Rundi language.
nguninoun	The group of Southern African peoples comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Mpondo and Ndebele nations.
nyanjanoun	The Chichewa language.
shonanoun	A language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
pidginnoun	(linguistics) An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.
amharicnoun	A Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
wolofnoun	The language traditionally spoken by those people.
kirundinoun	The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi which is spoken in Burundi.
chewanoun	A member of an African people inhabiting central Malawi and adjoining areas of Zambia and Mozambique.