Kipsigis people

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The Kipsigis people are a Kalenjin-speaking Nilotic ethnic group primarily inhabiting Kenya’s Rift Valley, known for their agro-pastoral lifestyle and rich oral traditions.

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Label Occurrences
Kipsigis people canonical 7

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kalenjin subgroup
Nilotic people
ethnic group
broaderGroup Eastern Nilotes
linked to: Nilotic peoples

Nilotic peoples
colonialHistory incorporated into British East Africa
subject to British colonial rule
continent Africa
country Kenya
culturalTrait age-set system
folksongs
initiation rites
oral poetry
rich oral traditions
storytelling
ethnicGroupOf Kenya
ethnolinguisticGroup Kalenjin
geographicFeature Great Rift Valley
Kenyan Highlands
linked to: Kenyan highlands
historicalRegion Kenya Colony
linked to: British East Africa
language Kipsigis language
languageFamily Kalenjin languages
Nilotic languages
Southern Nilotic languages
linguisticGroup Kalenjin
notableEconomicActivity tea farming
partOf Kalenjin people
populationCountry Kenya
primaryRegion Bomet County
Kericho County
linked to: Kericho District

Rift Valley Province
relatedEthnicGroup Keiyo people
Marakwet people
Nandi people
Pokot people
Sabaot people
Terik people
Tugen people
religion African traditional religion
Christianity
selfDesignationLanguage Kipsigis
traditionalBelief ancestor veneration
belief in a supreme deity
traditionalEconomy agro-pastoralism
cattle herding
goat keeping
maize farming
sheep keeping
sorghum cultivation
usesScript Latin script (for written Kipsigis)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kipsigis ethnicGroupOfSpeakers Kipsigis people
Kalenjin people subgroup Kipsigis people
Kericho District ethnicGroup Kipsigis people
Tugen people relatedEthnicGroup Kipsigis people
Kipsigis language spokenBy Kipsigis people
Kipsigis language ethnicGroup Kipsigis people
Sabaot people relatedEthnicGroup Kipsigis people