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- noun Plural form of
manyatta .
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Examples
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Karamojong families traditionally live in clusters of huts called manyattas
IRIN 2008
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Karamojong families traditionally live in clusters of huts called manyattas
IRIN 2008
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They then chased the survivors into their manyattas (villages) and cut them down with machetes, knives and spears ...
Homegrown Terror in Kenya Candace 2005
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They then chased the survivors into their manyattas (villages) and cut them down with machetes, knives and spears ...
Archive 2005-07-10 Candace 2005
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The women build the manyattas; there is no cooking, no tilling of the soil, no searching for wild fruits.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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At the end of the ten days they return to the manyattas.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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