Gikuyu or Kikuyu (Gikuyu: Gĩkũyũ pronounced [ɣēkōjó]) is a language of the Bantu family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people of Kenya. Numbering about 6 million (22% of Kenya’s population) they are the largest ethnic group in Kenya. Gikuyu is spoken in the area between Nyeri and Nairobi. Gikuyu is one of the five languages of the Thagichu subgroup of the Bantu languages which stretches from Kenya to Tanzania.
ISO 639-1 code
ki
ISO 639-2 code
kik
ISO 639-3 code
kik
family
Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Atlantic–Congo languages, Southern Bantoid languages
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