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Definition of Pokomo
1. Noun. A Bantu language spoken in the Kenyan coastal areas of East Africa.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pokomo
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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