Kipsigis (African people)

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Name (Hebrew)
קיפסיגיס (עם אפריקני)
Name (Latin)
Kipsigis (African people)
Name (Arabic)
كيبسيجيس (شعب أفريقي)
Other forms of name
Kipsigi (African people)
nne Kipsigis
Kipsikieh (African people)
Kipsikis (African people)
Lumbwa (Kenyan people)
Sikisi (African people)
See Also From tracing topical name
Ethnology Kenya
Nilotic peoples
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q3890850
Library of congress: sh 85072500
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Harkness, S. Kohlberg in the bush, a study of moral reasoning among the elders of a rural Kipsigis community.
  • African ethnonyms & toponyms, 1984(Kipsigis, other name: Lumbwa)
  • Biebuyck, D.P. African ethnonyms, 1996(Kipsigis (Kenya), Kipsigi, Kipsikieh, Lumbwa)
  • Encyc. of world cultures:v. 9, p. 163 (Kipsigis, Lumbwa (an opprobrious name given to the Kipsigis by the Massai. The name appears in many early texts.)
  • African ethnonyms, 1996(defines Nilotic as restricted to speakers of Western Nilotic languages, leaving Nilo-Hamitic people as a term for speakers of other Nilotic languages)