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Thank you very much, I just like it But would you please tell me what does TH make as pronunciation? Is it just like the "three" in English?
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Pronounciation of TH is influenced by dialectal as well as linguistic environment. In the southern Kikuyu dialects, TH is always prounced like the first sound in them, but in some nothern Kikuyu dialects, medial TH is pronunced similar to the the first sound in think
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quote: Originally posted by Learning Kikuyu: Gũtheka............To cook Gutheka.....to laugh
There are three sides to every argument: your side, my side and the right side.
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You have said that "In Gĩkũyũ, the infinitive is marked by the prefix KŨ- attached to the verb stem. When the verb stem starts with T, TH, C, K or vowels, the prefix KŨ-, is changed INTO GŨ-" But, in Kũenda.............To love, to like, I saw no Ku->Gu
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| Posts: 22 | Location: Lyon | Registered: 19 February 2008 |  
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quote: Originally posted by Learning Kikuyu: I have got some Kikuyu books and if there is someone into learning the grammatical aspects. I am here. Juts let me know
"hi, i am new in the forum and would really appreciate it if you would point out some books which can help me to improve my grammatical aspects in Kikuyu "
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| Posts: 3 | Location: DAGORETI | Registered: 22 June 2011 |  
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Welcome Wave, Unlike English where there are defined rules of engagement, Gikuyu language seems to defy most of the rules and there are variety of ways of saying the same thing correctly depending on your location geographically. As for books you are better on EBay and most of them are at least 100 years old authored by British translators.
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