Kisi language (Tanzania)
Not to be confused with Kissi language.
Kisi | |
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Kikisi | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | 18,000 Kisi (2001?)[1] |
Native speakers | 10,200 (2001)[2] |
Niger–Congo
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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
- ↑ Kisi language (Tanzania) at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Kisi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kisi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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