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Kwa or KWA may refer to: * Karegnondi Water Authority, Michigan, USA * Khmer Writers' Association, Cambodia Languages * Kwa languages, or New Kwa * Volta–Niger languages, or East Kwa * Baa language, or Kwa / Kwah, of Nigeria * Kwa' language of Cameroon * Dâw language, a Nadahup language spoken by 100 people, Amazonas, Brazil People * Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean lawyer * Kwah, a Dakelh leader Places * Kwah River, Congo * Great Kwa River, Nigeria * Bucholz Army Airfield Bucholz Army Airfield is a United States Army airfield located on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Its position is ideal for refueling during trans-Pacific flights, and the airport is available to civilians through Air Marshall Islands and Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karegnondi Water Authority
Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA) is a municipal corporation responsible for distributing water services in the Mid-Michigan and Thumb areas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Members of the authority are the cities of Flint and Lapeer, and the counties of Genesee, Lapeer and Sanilac. Karegnondi is a word from the Petan Indian language meaning "lake" and another early name for Lake Huron. Background Flint built its first water treatment plant (now defunct) in 1917. The city built a second plant in 1952. At the time of Flint's population peak and economic height (when the city was the center of the automobile industry), Flint's plants pumped 100 million gallons () of water per day. With the decline of the city's industry and a significant drop in the city's population (from almost 200,000 in 1960 to about 99,000 today), Flint pumped less water. By October 2015, when the Flint plant ended full time operations again, it pumped just 16 million gallons () daily. In 1963, Flint moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khmer Writers' Association
The Khmer Writers Association (KWA; km, សមាគមអ្នកនិពន្ធខ្មែរ, ), also known as the Association of Khmer Writers,Ollier, p. xv the Association des Ecrivains Khmers, or the Association of Cambodian Writers, was established in 1954 or 1956, and re-established in 1993 as a non-governmental organization. Formerly located at 465 Monivong Blvd, it is currently located at St. 244, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The organization encourages and promotes writing while offering training programs and competitions. Its authors try to promote a new direction to literature, introducing new themes, such as the abandonment of morality incompatible with modern life; developing new genres, such as ''theatre nouveau''; and providing translations, such as ''The Arabian Nights'', as part of a "didactic and diverse" genre. According to Smyth, the establishment of the KWA helped complete the "institutionalization of Khmer literature" as, through the 1960s, it became the veh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwa Languages
The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory Coast, across southern Ghana, and in central Togo. The name was introduced 1895 by Gottlob Krause and derives from the word for 'people' (''Kwa'') in many of these languages, as illustrated by Akan names. Languages See the box at right for a current classification. The various clusters of languages included in Kwa are at best distantly related, and it has not been demonstrated that they are closer to each other than to neighboring Niger–Congo languages. Stewart distinguished the following major branches, which historical-comparative analysis supports as valid groups: * Potou–Tano (including Akan) * Ga–Dangme * Na-Togo * ormerly Gbe (inclusion doubtful, as they show more features of Kwa the closer one moves to Akan) The Lagoon languages of southern Ivory Coast are not particularly close to any of these, nor to each other, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volta–Niger Languages
The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps 70 million speakers. Among these are the most important languages of southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and southeast Ghana: Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, and Gbe. These languages have variously been placed within the Kwa or Benue–Congo families, but Williamson & Blench (2000) separate them from both. The boundaries between the various branches of Volta–Niger are rather vague, suggesting diversification of a dialect continuum rather than a clear split of families, which suggest a close origin. Branches The constituent groups of the Volta–Niger family, along with the most important languages in terms of number of speakers, are as follows (with number of languages for each branch in parentheses): The Yoruboid languages and Akoko were once linked as the Defoid branch, but more recently they, Edoid, and Igboid have been sugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baa Language
Kwah (Kwa), also known as Baa (''Bàː''Idiatov, Dmitry, Mark Van de Velde, Tope Olagunju and Bitrus Andrew. 2017. Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria'. 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) (Leiden, Netherlands).), is a Niger–Congo language of uncertain affiliation; the more it has been studied, the more divergent it appears. Joseph Greenberg counted it as one of the Bambukic languages of the Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it its own branch within Waja–Jen. Kleinewillinghöfer (1996) removed it from Waja–Jen as an independent branch of Adamawa. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Kwah became a provisional independent branch of his larger Savannas family. Blench (2019) lists the locations of Baa as Gyakan and Kwa towns (located near Munga) in Numan LGA, Adamawa State Adamawa state () is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Borno to the northwest, Gombe to the west, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dâw Language
Dâw is a Nadahup language spoken by about one hundred Dâw people in the northwestern part of Amazonas, Brazil, in an area commonly known as Alto Rio Negro. Most Dâw also speak Nheengatu and Portuguese. An extinct variety, ''Kurikuria(r)í'', named after the Curicuriari River, was a distinct language sociolinguistically, but at least partially intelligible with Dâw. Phonology Vowels Dâw has 15 vowels: Vowels are laryngealized when occurring beside a glottal stop, as seen in the examples below. : ''"large mouth"'' : ''"to lack"'' Vowel harmony Vowel harmony in Dâw is seen primarily in two situations: in compounding and with the focus marker , where ''V'' indicates a vowel. When combining two words with the first word having the syllable structure CVC, vowel harmony is not seen, e.g. ''"high"'' + ''"boat"'' = ''"airplane"''. However, when combining two words with the first word having the syllable structure CV, vowel harmony is seen, e.g. ''"canoe"'' + ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwa Geok Choo
Kwa Geok Choo (; 21 December 1920 – 2 October 2010) was a Singaporean lawyer. She was the wife of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and the mother of current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. She was also the co-founder and partner of law firm Lee & Lee. Biography Kwa was the daughter of Kwa Siew Tee, former general manager of Oversea-Chinese Bank and Singapore Municipal Commissioner who was a Tong'anese on his paternal side who also had a Teochew mother, and Wee Yew Neo, Geok Choo's Teochew mother was from Shantou. Kwa attended the Methodist Girls' School, Raffles Institution and Raffles College, and was a Queen's Scholar of Malaya. According to Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs, by 1939, Kwa and Lee were both top students in Raffles, often coming first and second in exams. They continued their courtship during the Japanese occupation when their studies were disrupted. After the war, Kwa resumed her studies at Raffles College in 1946 while Lee left Singapore to pursue his law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwah
{{distinguish, Kwah language Kwah is the usual English form of the name of the famous Carrier leader Kw'eh. He was born around 1755 and died in 1840. Chief Kw'eh was the chief of his keyoh called Nak'azdli in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, now known as the Nak'azdli Band. In his time, few people lived at Nak'azdli (Fort Saint James), which attracted people due to the location of the North West Company (later Hudson's Bay Company) fort there, which was not established until 1806. Chief Kwah was a significant Keyoh Chief and his land was situated along the Stuart River. The Keyoh system is the customary land governance structure (pre 1846) of the Stuart Lake Carrier peoples and has been in place for at least 500 years. Each Keyoh consists of an extended family and a Keyoh Chief (Holder) appointed per customs. Chief Kw'eh held the very important noble name Ts'oh Dai in the Lhts'umusyoo clan. The clans were introduced in 1800s to allow the people a structure for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwah River
The Kasai River ( ; called Cassai in Angola) is a tributary (left side) of the Congo River, located in Central Africa. The river begins in central Angola and flows to the east until it reaches the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it turns north and serves as the border until it flows into the DRC. From Ilebo, between the confluences with Lulua river and Sankuru river, the Kasai river turns to a westerly direction. The lower stretch of the river from the confluence with Fimi river, is known as the Kwa(h) River, before it joins the Congo at Kwamouth northeast of Kinshasa. The Kasai basin consists mainly of equatorial rainforest areas, which provide an agricultural land in a region noted for its infertile, sandy soil. It is a tributary of Congo river and diamonds are found in it. Around 60% of diamonds in Belgium go from Kasai river for cutting and shaping. Exploration Henry Morton Stanley reached the confluence on 9 March 1877, calling the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Kwa River
The Great Kwa River (also called ''Kwa Ibo River'' or ''Kwa River'') flows through Cross River State, Nigeria, draining the east side of the city of Calabar. The river ecology is under threat from human activity. Location The river originates in the Oban Hills, in the Cross River National Park, and flows southwards to the Cross River estuary. Its lower reaches are tidal, with broad mud flats. and drain the eastern coast of the city of Calabar. Human activity Human activity in the Great Kwa basin has traditionally been limited to small scale farming, aquaculture and artisanal fisheries, mainly for shrimp. However, Calabar is growing, due in part to the Calabar Free Trade Zone, causing growing numbers of houses and factories to be built in the freshwater and mangrove swamps of the Great Kwa. The University of Calabar covers a site between the Great Kwa River and the Calabar River. The university has acquired more land on both banks of the Great Kwa for future development. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
