Taita is a Northeast Bantu language spoken by about 370,000 people in the Taita Hills in the centre of Taita-Taveta County in the south east of Kenya. In particular, Taita speakers can be found around the Dawida, Kasighau and Saghalla massifs in the Taita Hills.
Taita is also known as Taita-Sagala or Kidawida. Speakers of Taita call their language Kitaita and themselves Wataita. Dialects include Saghala (Kisaghala), Daw'ida (Kidawida) and Kasigau. The Saghala dialect is sufficiently distinct from the other dialects that it could be considered a separate language.
There are several ways to write Taita with the Latin alphabet have been used since the late 19th century. A unified orthography for the Bantu languages of Kenya, including Taita, was created in 2012.
Download an alphabet chart for Taita (Excel)
Details of the Taita alphabet (PDFs) provided by Wolfram Siegel
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/2138/LUK.11.TAITA
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.11.KJV
Information about Taita | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Taita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taita_language
https://archive.org/details/anelementaryint00wraygoog/mode/2up
https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/taita.html
https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/server/api/core/bitstreams/de451a70-909a-42ec-baf3-8b80dd13734c/content
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