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2. Kipsigis language - Wikipedia

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   The Kipsigis people are the most numerous tribe of the Kalenjin in Kenya, accounting for 60% of all Kalenjin speakers. Kipsigis is closely related to Nandi, Keiyo (Keyo, Elgeyo), South Tugen (Tuken), and Cherangany. The Kipsigis territory is bordered to the south and southeast by the Maasai. To the west, Gusii (a Bantu language) is spoken. To ...

3. Kipsigis - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Kipsigis may refer to: Kipsigis people, of Kenya; Kipsigis language, a ...

4. Kalenjin Naming System - Wikipedia

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   The first name of the Kipsigis males is prefixed by the term 'Kip' and then added a suffix descriptive of the prenatal, natal or post-natal places or time or weather and situations. It was to be widely used before initiation and rarely after, only as the mother mourns a dead soldier son or during divorce.

5. Kipsigis people - Wikipedia

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   The Kipsigis ferment milk in gourds with powdered popcorn flower tree cinders. The sour milk is known as Mursiik. The tribe also brewed nubian gin and it was reserved for men and women in and past middle age. Mushrooms. The Kipsigis are known to gather Termitomyces tylerianus, Termitomyces umkowaan and Termitomyces microcarpus (puunereek).

6. Kalenjin languages - Wikipedia

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   The Kalenjin languages are a family of a dozen Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania.The term Kalenjin comes from an expression meaning 'I say (to you)' or 'I have told you' (present participle tense).

7. Kalenjin people - Wikipedia

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   More than any of the other sections, the Nandi and Kipsigis, in response to Maasai expansion, borrowed from the Maasai some of the traits that would distinguish them from other Kalenjin: large-scale economic dependence on herding, military organization and aggressive cattle raiding, as well as centralized religious-political leadership.