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I got the uber pedant… “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.”

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JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
To be entirely fair to it, that is a transliteration problem. It does make sense if it could use Swahili to write the final “K” but it can’t, so it transliterates to “K”.

Then again, Kenya has both Swahili and English as its official languages, so it’s the kind of pedantry which is also (*sort of) incorrect.

sort of because if someone wants to have a rant about the evils of colonialism here, I’m gonna agree with them.
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- murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  As far as I know, Swahili is almost always written with the latin script.
  
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  - JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s a not universally popular colonial imposition. Hence my final comment.
    
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