The harmonization and standardization of Kenyan languages
Subtitle: orthography and other aspects
By: edited byNathan Oyori Ogechi, Jane A. Ngala Oduor and Peter Iribemwangi
Series: CASAS book series -- no. 87; CASAS book series -- no. 87.
Publisher: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781920287269
Subjects: Language policy; Congresses; Multilingualism; Languages; Standardization; Orthography and spelling
Notes: " ... proceedings of a workshop ... held in Nairobi on 10 July 2009"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Kwesi Kwaa Prah; title: Introduction: the language situation and language harmonization in Kenya / Nathan Oyori Ogechi; title: A case for the harmonization of Kikuyu, Kiembu and Kimbeere phonology and orthography / P.I. Iribemwangi; title: Harmonizing the orthography of Gĩkũyũ and Kĩkamba / Angelina Nduku Kioko, Martin C. Njoroge, Peter Mburu Kuria; title: Mutual intelligibility among the Taita, Taveta and Pare languages spoken in the cross-border area of south-western Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania / Catherina Kitetu; title: Issues of morphosyntax and orthography in EkeGusii and IgiKuria / Nathan Oyori Ogechi; title: Syntactic harmonization of the Kenyan Bantu languages / Mary K. Lonyangapuo; title: Harmonization of western Kenya Bantu languages: tone in IgiKuria and Luhya / Leonard Chacha Mwita; title: Towards the morphosyntactic harmonization of EkeGusii and Luhya / Bob J.O. Mbori; title: Mijikenda word order and morphology / Makoti Vifu Saidi; title: Harmonization of the orthographic system and the IPA system of Nilotic languages in Kenya / Jane Akinyi Ngala; title: The unity and diversity of Maa dialectal variants / Rainer Vossen; title: The phonology of English loanwords in three Kalenjin dialects / Hillary K. Sang, Prisca Jerono; title: The harmonization and standardization of the Ateso, Turkana, Ngakarimojong, Nyangatom and Toposa cluster / Simon Peter Ongodia; title: Some sociolinguistic facts about the unity between Oromo and Borana: dialects of the same language / Teshome Zeleke; title: The unity and diversity of Somali dialectical variants / Mauro Tosco.