Kapkirwok

The kalenjin Belgut/Bureti calendar. The calender months are geographically localised because first and foremost, season-names and seasons do not arrive at the same time. 1. Ng'otyooto - a seasonal soft, juicy-stalked green plant with bright red flowers 2. Kiptaamo - the old first month of the year, also the month of sowing 3. Iwootkuut - month marks the beginning of the green, wet iwoot season, hence 'the mouth of iwoot' 4. Bureet - month marks the onset of cold season and is named after fog/mist, kibureet or bureet 5. Kipsuunde netaai - first month of offering suunetik (fat) with first fruits 6. Kipsuunde nebo oeng' - marks the second offering of fat and harvest, Kalenjiin equivalent of thanksgiving

 Amongst the kalenjins livestock were named based on size, colour and character. Chesitien - colour with white spots}  Samoi - has 2 different colours}  Tilito- {white tail/ erect ears} Chemarus- {black cow}  Karoi - {hornless}, Cheseger - {face spoted cow},  Chenwach - {short cow} Kipkuino - {large horned cow}  Birir met  - {Red head} Olbas - {tall oxen},  Tuiyai - {black cow}  Kiplege - {cow with several colours}  Tenkerich - {short cow}  lelgiana - {white udder} cheboi - {redish cow} Bois - {redish bull} chemugen - {white spottd bull} Tilegat - {white spotted cow} simatian - {greyish cow} chemaluk - {productive cow} chelosgei - {arrogant cow}

The Kalenjin languages are generally distinguished into four sub-branches. 1. Elgon languages - Kupsabiny (Uganda) - Sabaot (Kenya) 2. Nandi-Markweta languages a. Markweta languages - Endo language (Kenya) - Talai language (Kenya) b. Nandi languages - Aramanik language (Kenya) - Kalenjin language (Kenya) (including Kipsigis, Nandi, Terik, and Keiyo dialects) - Kisankasa language (Tanzania) - Mediak language (Tanzania) - Mosiro language (Tanzania) - Tugen language (Kenya) 3.Okiek language (Kenya, Tanzania) - Kinare dialect (extinct) - Sogoo dialect (endangered) - Akiek dialect (endangered) 4. Pokot language (Kenya)

Eight age sets in The Kalenjin Sub tribes has eight (8) age sets revolving around 100 year cycle. Each age set span over a period of 13 years before moving to the next age set. The age sets are as detailed below. 1)Maina - 1800 A.D. - 1885A. 2)Nyongi - 1885 A.D.- 1900 A.D 3)Chumiot - 1900 A.D .- 1924A.D 4)Saweiyiek - 1924A.D. - 1940 A.D 5) Korongoro - 1940A.D .-1966 A.D 6) Kip koimet - 1966A.D .-1976A.D 7) Kaplelach - 1976A.D .- 1996 A.D 8) Kipnyiige - 1996A.D .- todate. Tugen lost an age set called Maina, after they were exterminated in a war. they had traveled all the way to Laikipia and found the Masais had gone to war at Tanzania. they took all the cows and while at Naivasha, they decided to feast. incidentally, the Masais' arrived and tracked their stolen cows and caught up with them unawares around the present Naivasha and killed all the raiders. The Maina age group was therefore skipped to the next, hence, Keiyos are behin...

The Ogieek is a Kalenjin tribe that is little known despite being the aboriginal inhabitant of the planet. indeed the Maasai and Kalenjin believe that all human beings descended from the Ogieek (Iltorobo in Maa.They once ranged the plains of East Africa and Ethiopia where they are called Ogaw or Omotik. They also live in Northern Tanzania and Eastern Uganda. A large number of t he Ogieek were assimilated by the Agikuyu and Akamba sometimes in the 1750s. they also introduced the secret knowledge to the Shagishu and Ngembe(or Kikuyu). The Kalenjin age sets passed by the Ogieek to Kikuyu are Maina (Maina), Kororngoro (Irungu ),Nyongi (Mwangi),and Chumo (cuma). Those Ogieek assimilated into Kikuyu took names like Maina, Irungu, Mwathi(Athi),Ngumba (Gumbaeek of TZ) Kamau (Kemeet of Egypt). The Ogieek are some of the most brown people in Africa and the Kikuyus have their great rivers of blood flowing in their veins. The Ogieek is term encompassing so many sub-units speakin...

Kalenjin language is sweet but difficult. It is the oldest language which was first written down about 18,000 years ago-The Book of the Death and Herodotus affirms it himself because he learned that language during the 5th C BCE.The answers are: 1.Kyupkenyesuut.........ant bear also called Chemengeweet, kuteet. 2.Abusoiit....skin bag also call ed abusegit. 3.Oorteet....the most poisonous tree whose smoke can kill 4.moss(verb).....to sip milk,water etc 5.Kipkalunyaat.....a very well behaved man. 6.aabiyet....................l eopard in Ogieek 7.Kinugeet..............a bird like a dove 8.kobomborwet..........human skeleton 9.Chepkerusiet,....mongoose. 10.Nkwaiyandet,...quail also called Chepakwaeet. 11.Chepkelembuut / Tikwiria,...........qu ail 13.nkululeek........foot and mouth disease. 14.sisinaat................pla in land 15.kisiereet(kusiereet)....the number ONE THOUSAND.

KEETIKAB KALENJIN ak boisietab age tugul: 1. Emityoot- used for erecting mabwaita 2. Kurbanyaat- used in the performance os some 'mumeek' ceremonies 3. Lelechuet- used in the sprinkling of cattle 'Iseet-ab-tuga'i.e blessing herds and driving diseases e.g anthrax n rinderpest away 4. Macheget- used to warn people of danger, especially where a cow which died of anhrax had been burried 5. Marongeet- used in cursing ceremonies 6. Noogirwet- a tree with many muloonok. Used mostly during gooito 7. Cheebitet- a very hard tree. Used in construction of houses and fences. A house was not to be built where cheebitoik grew since termites heavily inhabited such areas. 8. Tebeng'wet- its leaves were used to drive away anthrax 9. Baregeiwot- the wood was used for making seegetyet, the small wooden spoon for cutting kimyeet