Definition of Pokomo

1. Noun. A Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa.

Generic synonyms: Bantoid Language, Bantu

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pokomo

Poisson
Poisson's ratio
Poisson-Pearson formula
Poisson distribution
Poisson distributions
Poisson process
Poisson processes
Poissonian
Poissons
Poitier
Poitiers
Poitou
Poitou-Charentes
Poitou colic
Poivrade
Pokomo (current term)
Pokédollar
Pokédollars
Pokéfan
Pokéfans
Pokémaniac
Pokémaniacs
Polack
Polacks
Poland
Poland's syndrome
Polander
Polanders
Polanisia

Literary usage of Pokomo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald (1898)
"The chief cultivators appear to be the Wa-Pokomo, a people settled along the banks of the river, of which they are the regular boatmen. ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Language: Comprising Those by J. Torrend (1891)
"N- B. Nyika is spoken inland from Mombasa, and Pokomo on the banks of the Pokomo river. Unfortunately, nearly all that we know on these languages has come ..."

3. Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia: With by Harald G. C. Swayne (1903)
"... Galias—The Wa-pokomo negroes of the Tana—Origin of the Gallas— The Esa tribe — The ... pokomo ..."

4. British East Africa, Or I B E A: A History of the Formation and Work of the by P. L. McDermott (1895)
"The Lower Tana is inhabited principally by the Wa-Pokomo, a tribe who eub- • The prefix " 'Wa " is the plural, and " M " the singular, denoting membership ..."

5. Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages by Alice Werner (1919)
"II. some traditions (all with German translation). Some grammatical notes (1889), and a Pokomo- German vocabulary had previously been published by F. ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"Several Pokomo villages were passed on the way, whilst the surrounding country was thick grass, with forest in the background, converted into a swamp by the ..."

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