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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