Kissi

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Kissi is a West African language spoken primarily by the Kissi people in parts of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kissi canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Niger–Congo language
West African language
language
countryStatus minority language in Guinea
minority language in Liberia
minority language in Sierra Leone
hasAlternativeName Gisi
Kisi
hasDialect Northern Kissi
Southern Kissi
hasEthnicAssociation Kissi people NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code ksi (Southern Kissi)
kss (Northern Kissi)
linked to: Kissi people
hasLinguisticType SVO basic word order (subject–verb–object)
hasMorphology agglutinative features
hasPhonologicalFeature tone language
hasScriptStatus Latin-based orthographies used in education and literacy projects
hasUsage primarily spoken rather than written
languageBranch Atlantic–Congo
languageFamily Niger–Congo
languageSubbranch Southern Atlantic
neighboringLanguages Kpelle
Loma
Mende
region Eastern Sierra Leone
Forest region of Guinea
linked to: Guinea Forestière

Northwestern Liberia
linked to: western Liberia

West Africa
spokenBy Kissi people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Guinea
Liberia
Sierra Leone
usedFor everyday communication
local trade
oral tradition
writingSystem Kissi syllabary
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Meliandou regionLanguage Kissi
subject linked to: Meliandou, Guinea
Guineans language Kissi
Loma neighboringLanguages Kissi
Toma neighboringLanguage Kissi
Kono neighboringLanguages Kissi