Kisi is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The t ...

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

* Languages of Tanzania Northeast Bantu languages {{Bantu-lang-stub