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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.

Phonology

Other phonemes:

• and are in a free variation.
• and are not included in a phoneme chart in Kisi because they only occur as glide insertion between historically or morphologically adjacent vowels. does not occur otherwise. For some speakers, occurs as a free variant of which is considered incorrect by other speakers.

Contrastive and obligatory length is marked with /:/. This does not necessarily reflect a difference in the length of production.

Swahili: bei, and Swahili: ngao - These Swahili words have been borrowed into Kisi and pronounced with a diphthong in Kisi

References

1. ^ Kisi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

Bibliography

• Gray, Hazel (2018). "Kisi Phonology and Morphology". SIL International. (in Kisi). Archived from the original on 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2018-12-18.{{cite web}}: 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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