Siku ya mwaka: the Swahili New Year
The concept of the natural year (Swahili `mwaka´) is found throughout the Bantu family of languages (Guthrie 1970: iv, 143) Today there are three possible years for the Swahili. First there is the Swahili year, the first day of which was once celebrated by all the Swahili people, while the year itse...
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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
2012
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