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The Kisi are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group from Makete District of Njombe Region, Tanzania, on the northwestern shore of Lake Malawi. Description. Population
They are the fourth largest ethnic group in Guinea, making up 6.2% of the population. [6] Kissi people are also found in Liberia and Sierra Leone. They speak the Kissi language, which belongs to the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family. [7] The Kissi are well known for making baskets and weaving on vertical looms.
The Abagusii (also known as Kisii (Mkisii/Wakisii) in Swahili, or Gusii in Ekegusii) are a Bantu ethnic group indigenous to Kisii and Nyamira counties of former Nyanza, as well as parts of Kericho and Bomet counties of the former Rift Valley province of Kenya.
Ethnicity: 15,000 Kisi (2012) [1] Native speakers. 11,000 ... are not included in a phoneme chart in Kisi because they only occur as glide insertion between ...
The Bantu Sukuma are Tanzania's largest ethnic group. mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and African. Around 100,000 people living in Tanzania are from Europe or Asia.
Kissi (or Kisi) is a Mel language of West Africa, There are two dialects, northern and southern, and both are tonal languages. The northern dialect is spoken in Guinea and in Sierra Leone . The southern dialect is spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone .
Kisi may refer to: Kisi (grape) (Georgian: ქისი), a white grape variety indigenous to Georgia; Kisi people of Tanzania; Kisi language (Tanzania) Kisi, Kenya, a town in Nyanza Province; Kisi, Nigeria, a town in Oyo State; Kissi language of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa
Nzambi Mpungu was recorded as the name of the God of the Kongo people as early as the early 16th century by Portuguese who visited the Kingdom of Kongo. [1] [2]European missionaries along with Kongo intellectuals (including King Afonso I of Kongo) set out to render European Christian religious concepts into Kikongo and they chose this name to represent God.