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According to the [[Kenya National Bureau of Statistics]] (KNBS), Kenya has a total population of 38,610,097 inhabitants. The largest native ethnic groups are the [[Kikuyu people|Kikuyu]] (6,622,576), [[Luhya people|Luhya]] (5,338,666), [[Kalenjin people|Kalenjin]] (4,967,328), [[Luo people|Luo]] (4,044,440), [[Kamba people|Kamba]] (3,893,157), [[Somalis]] (3,510,757), [[Kisii people|Kisii]] (2,205,669), [[Mijikenda peoples|Mijikenda]] (1,960,574), [[Meru people|Meru]] (1,658,108), [[Turkana people|Turkana]] (988,592), and [[Maasai people|Maasai]] (841,622). The [[North Eastern Province, Kenya|North Eastern Province]] of Kenya, formerly known as NFD, is predominantly inhabited by the indigenous ethnic [[Somalis]]. Foreign-rooted populations include [[Somalis]] (from [[Somalia]]), Kenyan [[Omanis|Arabs]], [[Indians in Kenya|Asians]] and [[White people in Kenya|Europeans]].<!-- Latter populations are designated with a ''Kenyan'' prefix in latest 2009 census; this is a holdover from the last colonial census of 1962, when the population groups residing in the territory included European, Arab, Somali, African and Asian individuals ("European, Arab, Somali or African, etc. Asians must write Indian or Pakistan" [http://www.waikato.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/117476/Kenya-1962-en.pdf]) --><ref>{{cite web|url= http://knbs.or.ke/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&download=585:volume-2-population-and-household-distribution-by-socio-economic-characteristics&id=109:population-and-housing-census-2009&Itemid=599|title= The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume II – Population and Household Distribution by Social Economic Characteristics p. 397-398.|publisher= Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)}}</ref>

 

Kenya's various ethnic groups typically speak their [[mother tongue]]s within their own communities. The two [[official language]]s, English and [[Swahili language|Swahili]], are used in varying degrees of fluency for communication with other populations. English is widely spoken in commerce, schooling and government.<ref name="Cugrwed">{{cite book|last=Proquest Info & Learning (COR)|title=Culturegrams: World Edition|year=2009|publisher=Proquest/Csa Journal Div|isbn=978-0-9778091-6-5|page=98}}</ref> [[Peri-urbanisation|Peri-urban]] and rural dwellers are less multilingual, with many in rural areas speaking only their native languages.<ref name="Broassim">{{cite book|author1=Brown, E. K. |author2=Asher, R. E. |author3=Simpson, J. M. Y. |title=Encyclopedia of language & linguistics, Volume 1, Edition 2|year=2006|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-044299-0|page=181}}</ref>