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Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
Noun
kanyĩrĩ class 12 (plural tũnyĩrĩ)
- long tailfeather of male bird[1]
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References
- ^ “kanyĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 347. Oxford: Clarendon Press.