First a correction-- when I wrote about the 'biaaa' ACEO the other day, I incorrectly said that Kisi was spoken in Tanzania. Well, there is
a Kisi spoken there-- but not the one I'm using. Apparently there's more than one.
This Kisi is spoken on the other side of the continent, around the three-way border between Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
So here are three Kisi pieces:
[Look! Blogger did it again. Picked my favorite piece and turned it sideways. AAAUUUGGHHH!
I'll fix it later if I can.]
tuei 'listen'
dimul ya 'tell me'
bakala-bakala, an ideophone meaning the sound of big, fat raindrops.
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