Chindabarao Ekegusii. Dictionary Ekegusii - English

Ekegusii online dictionary and encyclopedia (www.konigaprintssafaris.com), 2011. - 866 p.The Gusii language (also known as Kisii or Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya,whose head-quarters is Kisii town, (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania). It is spoken by the Gusii people, numbering about 1.5 million (SIL/Ethnologue 1994). A few Gusii people are bilingual in Luo.
Ekegusii (Spoken by Abagusii / Kisii people of Western Kenya) is spelt phonetically and is used extensively at home, market places, at church and even at rural schools, especially in primary school level for communication and teaching purposes. It is classified as a central Bantu language and labeled E.42 by MalcolmGuthrie (Guthrie 1971). The Kisii language has a concordial system of its sentence constituents in regard to verb, noun class and number agreement. The Kisii people are well known for their Soapstone carvings which they also export and for the large banana plantations (Sweet bananas at Suneka).