Kisi language (Tanzania)

Not to be confused with Kissi language.
Kisi
Kikisi
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity 18,000 Kisi (2001?)[1]
Native speakers
10,200 (2001)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kiz
Glottolog kisi1243[3]
G.67[4]
Linguasphere 99-AUS-re

Kisi is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Though only half or so of the Kisi people speak the language, use is vigorous where it is still spoken.

References

  1. Kisi language (Tanzania) at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Kisi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kisi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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