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From Ludewa District to Lupingu (where most of the Kisi are located), it is not far, however there are several mountains and hills with a rough road which make transport difficult. Therefore in the past, most of the time the Kisi people were travelling on foot from Lupingu to Ludewa , carrying pots and fish , which they were selling them to ...
The typical Gusii family unit is composed of a man, his wives, and their children, living on the same land. This was divided into two components: the homestead ("Omochie") and the cattle camps ("Ebisarate"). [9] [26] The married man, his wives, and their unmarried daughters and uncircumcised boys lived in the omochie.
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.
Ethnicity: 15,000 Kisi (2012) [1] Native speakers. 11,000 (2012) [1] Language family. Niger ... are not included in a phoneme chart in Kisi because they only occur as ...
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. The two dialects are notably different, but are closely related.
The Gusii language (also known as Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in Kisii and Nyamira counties in Nyanza Kenya, whose headquarters is Kisii Town, (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania).
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.