Word: kikuyu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who live among the wild animals may be excused if they sometimes do not share the American's or the European's mystical enthusiasm for the beasts. Farmers like the Kikuyu, the Embu and the Meru regard the wild animals as dangerous and destructive nuisances. Crop-raiding baboons are esteemed among African farmers about as highly as the coyote is admired among West Texas ranchers. They are considered vermin. Elephants passing through a Kikuyu shamba (small farm) one night can wipe out a farmer's profit for a year. The law forbids killing them. If the elephants and giraffes...
...people about the way that animals come to them in dreams. His five-year-old son in New York City has nightmares about animals he has never seen. He dreams, for instance, of lions. What does an African boy dream about? The visitor collected dreams from Masai and Kikuyu schoolchildren, from schoolteachers, from witch doctors, from Masai warriors and safari guides, from white ranchers and game catchers and naturalists and from himself. It was a way of seeing the animals...
...office, Bergvall polishes a presentation on "Women and Language" for a guest section she is to lead at 2 p.m. It is a topic that fascinates her, but one that "creates a lot of unease" among linguists, she says. So while she devotes her thesis to the analysis of Kikuyu, a traditional subject, she has made the issue of language and power between the sexes a second intellectual endeavor. It offers "a chance for me to express my feminism," she says, noting that academic pressures have forced her to sacrifice much of her earlier involvement with the University's Women...
Every week, the students hear a foreign language, usually on tape and try to render its nuances in IPA. The featured language this week is Bergvall's specialty of Kikuyu, spoken by a native Kikuyu...
When she can do it, her own research involves the cataloguing of Kikuyu syntax, with the help of a native speaker. She also reads current theses on the syntax of related languages like Swahili, and works on her own framework for a Kikuyu syntax...