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Note 118: An additional term for a porridge stirrer, * - paga, is found in Kagulu, Sagala, and Gogo.
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Note 2: Somewhat parallel, Beidelman reported that in Kagulu societies people rarely speak of pregnancy or about being pregnant in public because it was considered ill-mannered to do so.
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Also significant in Kagulu communities were the movements of ancestral Langi (Kati descendant) immigrants into Kagulu homelands.
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Note 137: Attests in Kagulu for "ritual tail" and similarly in Shona mwise and Kamba mwethe. back
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In the scheme, Kagulu is thus positioned between proto-West Ruvu and proto-East Ruvu to convey the proposed dialect chain.
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112 The presence of the term in Kagulu in this case likely resulted from additional areal sharing among neighboring groups, as was the case with other cultural elements.
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And it also can be the word for a single man's home in Kagulu.
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By around the ninth and tenth centuries CE, proto-Ruvu speech communities had diverged resulting in the emergence of Kagulu, proto-West Ruvu, and proto-East Ruvu language communities.
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The cognation-retention ranges of Kagulu with the descendant languages of both the proto-West and East Ruvu speech communities suggest that the three initially formed a chain of language communities spread along an area between the Wami and Rufiji Rivers.
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The color patterning conveys which languages derive from the proto-West Ruvu, proto-East Ruvu, and Kagulu subgroups.
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