iburi
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ini, ngo, mũgeni, mũndũ, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, and so on.[2][3]
Noun
editiburi class 5 (plural maburi)
References
edit- ^ “iburi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 36. 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu", p. 58. In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.