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- IPA(key): /ekikúja/
- Rhymes: -úja
- Hyphenation: e‧ki‧ku‧ya
ekikuya class 7 (plural ebikuya class 8, augmentless kikuya, plural augmentless bikuya)
- chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
- Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 33
- Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza[2], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 191