re: #256 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too
Probably have to be logged in. Let’s try this.
“welcome to kenya”, with “translation” into the arabic alphabet
SIL Ethnologue (2009) reports the largest communities of native speakers in Kenya as follows:
Niger-Congo
Bantu
Kikuyu 7.18 million
Kamba 3.96 million
Ekegusii 2.12 million (2006)
Kimru 1.74 million
Oluluyia > 1.5 million
Kigiryama 0.62 million (1994)
Kiembu 0.43 million (1994)
Nilo-Saharan
Nilotic
Dholuo 4.27 million
Kalenjin > 1.6 million
Maasai 0.59 million
Turkana 0.45 million (2009)
arabic is not among these languages. the most common lingua franca, swahili, is written with roman letters
The vast majority of Kenyans are Christian (83%), with 47.7% regarding themselves as Protestant and 23.5% as Roman Catholic. 621,200 of Kenyans are Orthodox Christians. Notably, Kenya has the highest number of Quakers in the world, with around 133,000 members. Sizeable minorities of other faiths do exist (Muslim 11.2%, irreligious 2.4%, indigenous beliefs 1.7%
ignorant wingnut is ignorant