Miezi ya Kiswahili (Swahili months)-gctid132300

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Traditional Swahili Months

mwezi wa kwanza wa mwaka, 1st month (January)
mwezi wa pili, 2nd month (February)
mwezi wa tatu, 3rd month (March)
mwezi wa nne, 4th month (April)
mwezi wa tano, 5th month (May)
mwezi wa sita, 6th month (June)
mwezi wa saba, 7th month (July)
mwezi wa nane, 8th month (August)
mwezi wa tisa, 9th month (Semptember)
mwezi wa kumi, 10th month (October)
mwezi wa kumi na moja, 11th month (November)
mwezi wa kumi na mbili, 12th month (December)

Source: http://www.afropedea.org/Kmtyw-science/swahili-calendar#TOC-Traditional-Swahili-Months

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I've read that the Kemetic year started around August/September (harvest time).
The Akan year also starts around August/September (harvest time) with Odwira. I wonder how "traditional" this is or how influenced by the gregorian calendar it is.

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Obadele Kambon;132316 wrote: I've read that the Kemetic year started around August/September (harvest time).
The Akan year also starts around August/September (harvest time) with Odwira. I wonder how "traditional" this is or how influenced by the gregorian calendar it is.

Hii ni kweli (This is true). Nitapeleleza hii (I'll investigate this). Asante mwalimu.

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Karibu!

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In the third chapter of Time and the Black Experience, the author states  that the Waswahili (Swahili people) based their calendar on the Islamic  calendar to a degree, but kept their calendar three months ahead of the  aAmwic one. Thus after the end of Ramadan the new year would begin.  This was around the start of August. This approximate concordance with  other Kmtyw calendrical systems would seem to be a holdover from prior to the aAmwic cultural penetration.

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Asante sana!