Gikuyu Translation

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Quick Facts

• Alternate names & spellings:  Kikuyu.
• Language ISO code: ki/kik
• Number of speakers: Around 6 millions speakers.
• Writing system: written in a modified Latin script.
• Spoken in: Kenya.

About Gikuyu

The Gikuyu, one of the five Thagichu languages that cover all the way from Kenya to Tanzania, is a language of the Bantu family (parts of the Niger-Congo family) spoken in the Kenyan area of Nyeri and Nairobi.

Although the language is not official (English and Swahili are the official ones), it is spoken as a first language by more than 5.3 million people in the country, and these recent years it has spread into other parts of Kenya.

In addition to the Gikuyu community –the largest ethnic group in Kenya- that learns it as their first language, the language is also learned as second language or even third language in urban areas by other communities.
The Kikuyu migrated from Lake Chad (Cameroon and Nigeria areas) to southern Africa before they went to the north and the eastern part o the continent, arriving at the Nyeri area around 1000 A.D.
Unlike other East African languages, Kikuyu along with Swahili has a considered and valuable written literature.

Gikuyu dialects

The most important ones, all of them mutually intelligible, are Ndia spoken in Kiambu District, Gichugu from Muranga District and Mathira, spoken in Nyeri District.