riika

See also: Riika

Kikuyu

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[2]

riika class 5 (plural mariika)

group of the people who have been circumcised at the same time;^[3] used to play a role in tying up kinship relations such as mũhĩrĩga, mbarĩ and nyũmba;^[4] age group, age set

(Proverbs)

^ “rika” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
^ Davison, Jean (1996) Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995‎^[1], Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, →ISBN, page 32
^ Nganga, Nobuko, Nganga, Peter S. (2013) “The Kinship System and Rule for Naming Children in Kikuyu People of Kenya”, in 長崎大学教育学部社会科学論叢‎^[2] (in Japanese), pages 25–33