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Kasai
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Kasaï
English
Etymology 1
+, Hyōgo
Proper noun
en city prefecture/Hyōgo c/Japan.
Translations
city in Japan
Chinese: zh 加西
Japanese: ja 加西 かさい, Kasai
Etymology 2
+ River
Proper noun
en Q186541en major river r/Central Africa left bank tributary of the Congo River in the c:also/Democratic Republic of the Congo,Angola.
en Koen Bostoen, Peter Coutros, Jessamy Doman, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Sara Pacchiarotti, Carina Schlebusch The coevolution of languages, peoples and environments in Central Africa’s Kwilu-Kasai region since ∼1000 BCE: A dialogue with Jan Vansina Quaternary Environments and Humans 3 4 2025-12 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236525000325 While modern language data situate the West-Coastal Bantu homeland between the Kasai and Kamtsha Rivers, this zone was only settled towards the beginning of the common era based on the currently available archaeological data.
Translations
major river in Central Africa
French fr Kasaï
Portuguese pt Cassai, pt Kasai
Japanese
Romanization
かさい