Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated 341 kilometres (212 mi) by road northeast...
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Lamu (Lamo; autonym: la21 mu33) is a highly endangered Loloish language of northeastern Binchuan County, Yunnan. According to Bradley (2007), the Lamo...
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classification of the Bantu languages, considers kiOzi as a dialect in itself. It is not the ancestor language of Kiswahili but a member of the Lamu group (code G42a)...
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Lamu Island is a port, city, and island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately 150 miles from Mombasa. It is a part of the East...
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Lamus may refer to: Lamus River (Turkish: Limonlu Çayı) Lamus (city), ancient city on the river Lamus (Isauria), town of ancient Isauria Lamus (see), Catholic...
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Lamalama language, also known by the clan name Mbarrumbathama (Austlang) or Mba Rumbathama, formerly known as Lamu-Lamu or Lama-Lama, is a Paman language of...
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Lamu Archipelago is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs. The islands lie between the towns of Lamu and...
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North Cape York Northern Paman Umpila Umbindhamu † Lamalamic Umbuygamu † Lamu-Lamu Yalgawarra † Yalanjic Guugu Yimithirr Guugu Yalandji Barrow Point † (>>...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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relationship between Amto-Musan and Left May speakers: ‘arrow’ Amto lamu, Musan namu, Ama lamu ‘stone’: Amto tabeki, Musan tipeki, Bo təpəki, Ama tomoki The...
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Islands, Somalia), Socotra Swahili, Mwiini (Brava, Somalia), Coastal Swahili (Lamu, Mombasa, Zanzibar), Pemba Swahili (Pemba, Mafia) In addition, there are...
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Swahili architecture (section Lamu, Kenya)
architecture is still very visible in the thriving urban centers of Mombasa, Lamu and Malindi in Kenya and Songo Mnara, Kilwa Kisiwani, and Zanzibar in Tanzania...
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the 19th century. They have lost their own language and speak Somali. Loss of cattle brought them to Lamu island in the second half of the 20th century...
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There are numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling...
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The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic...
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Yangjin Lamu is a spiritual musician, author, modern practitioner of Buddhism, and creator of Zen of Yangjinma. In 2011, Miho: Journey to the Mountain...
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Swahili people (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
northern Mozambique, and various archipelagos off the coast, such as Zanzibar, Lamu, and the Comoro Islands.: 9–11 The original Swahili distinguished themselves...
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more specious room at the Lamu Fort Museum. The library is a department of the Lamu Fort Museum, it is the only library in Lamu that serves the public....
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The Lamu Fort (Swahili: Boma la Lamu), is a fortification in the town of Lamu in northeastern Kenya. Originally situated on the waterfront, the fort today...
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Bajuni people (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
into the Lamu Archipelago on their own. Bajuni traditions confirm recorded accounts from Lamu and Pate that by the sixteenth century, Lamu, Pate, Shela...
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(1997) considers Lisoish languages to be part of the Central Loloish branch. David Bradley (2007) considers Lisu, Lipo, and Lamu to form a Lisoid subgroup...
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Monpa people (redirect from Monpa language)
They also share very close affinity with the Sharchops of Bhutan. Their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family, but it is significantly different...
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Coast Province (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
Some of the province's important towns included Kilifi, Malindi, Watamu and Lamu in the north, and Mwandimu and Magunda in the south. Some of the coastal...
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Wituland (category Lamu County)
centered on the town of Witu, just inland from the Indian Ocean port of Lamu, north of the mouth of the Tana River in what is now Kenya. Founded in the...
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Lamu Amatya (née Palden; 27 January 1932 – 1 June 2012) was the first Nepalese trained–nurse. She received her nursing degree in 1954 and started working...
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Errol Trzebinski (category People from Lamu County)
the book's form, organization and prose. Trzebinski lived and worked in Lamu Island, Kenya. One of her children was the painter Tonio Trzebinski, who...
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The Choco languages (also Chocoan, Chocó, Chokó) are a small family of Indigenous languages spread across Colombia and Panama. Choco consists of six known...
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Urusei Yatsura (redirect from Lamu, the Invader Girl)
United Kingdom. The series was released on television in Southeast Asia as Lamu the Invader Girl. The series and films have been license rescued by Discotek...
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Kore people (redirect from Kore language)
The Kore of Lamu are a small people living on Lamu Island on the northern Kenya coast. In 1985 they numbered between 200 and 250 people (Curtin 1985)....
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