Kenya: Diferenzas entre revisións

 

== Etimoloxía ==

 

 

[[Ludwig Krapf]] recorded the name as both ''Kenia'' and ''Kegnia'' believed by most to be a corruption of the Kamba version.<ref name=Krapf>{{cite book| last=Krapf | first=Johann Ludwig | authorlink=Johann Ludwig Krapf| title= Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours in Eastern Africa| year=1860 | publisher=Frank Cass & Co. Ltd | location=London| isbn= }}</ref><ref name=krapf_452>{{cite journal| last=Krapf | first=Johann Ludwig| authorlink = Johann Ludwig Krapf | date = 13 May 1850| title = Extract from Krapf's diary| journal=Church Missionary Intelligencer| volume=i | page=452}}</ref><ref name=foottit>{{cite book| last = Foottit | first = Claire | origyear=2004| title = Kenya | series = The Brade Travel Guide| year=2006 | publisher=Bradt Travel Guides Ltd| isbn=1-84162-066-1}}</ref> Others say that this was—on the contrary—a very precise notation of a correct African pronunciation {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɛ|n|j|ə}}.<ref>{{cite journal| author=Ratcliffe, B. J. | title=The Spelling of Kenya| journal=Journal of the Royal African Society | pages=42–44| volume= 42| issue = 166 |date=January 1943| jstor=717465}}</ref> An 1882 map drawn by Joseph Thompsons, a Scottish geologist and naturalist, indicated Mt. Kenya as Mt. Kenia, 1862.<ref name="sullivan"/> Controversy over the actual meaning of the word Kenya notwithstanding, it is clear that the mountain's name became widely accepted, [[pars pro toto]], as the name of the country.