Kisi_language_(Bantu)
Kisi language (Tanzania)
Bantu language of Tanzania
Not to be confused with Kissi language or Gusii language.
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.
Quick Facts Native to, Ethnicity ...
Kisi | |
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Kikisi | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | 15,000 Kisi (2012)[1] |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2012)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kiz |
Glottolog | kisi1243 |
G.67 [2] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUS-re |
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More information Labial, Alveolar ...
Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Plosive | aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
prenasalised | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮɟ | ᵑɡ | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||
voiced | β | ʝ | ɣ | |||
Affricative | tʃ | |||||
Liquid | l |
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More information Bilabial, Labio-dental ...
Bilabial | Labio-dental | Alveolar | Post alveolar/
palatal |
Velar | |
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Prenasalised voiceless
plosives |
mph | nth | ᵑkh | ||
Prenasalised voiceless
fricatives |
ᶬf | ns | |||
Prenasalized voiceless
affricatives |
ntʃ | ||||
Aspirated nasals | mh | nh | ɲh |
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Other phonemes:
- [ɾ] and [l] are in a free variation.
- [w] and [j] are not included in a phoneme chart in Kisi because they only occur as glide insertion between historically or morphologically adjacent vowels. [w] does not occur otherwise. For some speakers, [j] occurs as a free variant of [ʝ] which is considered incorrect by other speakers.
More information Front, Central ...
Front | Central | Back | |
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High - degree 1 | i
i: |
u
u: | |
High - degree 2 | ɪ
ɪ: |
ʊ
ʊ: | |
Mid | e
e: |
o
o: | |
Low | a
a: |
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Contrastive and obligatory length is marked with /:/. This does not necessarily reflect a difference in the length of production.
More information Symbol, Example words ...
Symbol | Example words | Meaning |
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[e]-[i] [bei] | Swahili: bei | 'price' |
[a]-[o] [ᵑɡao] | Swahili: ngao | 'shield' |
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Swahili: bei, and Swahili: ngao - These Swahili words have been borrowed into Kisi and pronounced with a diphthong in Kisi
- Kisi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Gray, Hazel (2018). "Kisi Phonology and Morphology". SIL International. (in Kisi). Archived from the original on 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Ngonyani, Deogratias S. "Aspects of Non-Concatenative Morphology in Kikisi." Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics, 6(1): 40-59.
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