Kissi people

Name: Kissi people: census figures, languages and lineage
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Кисси · Q1743773

language area per Glottologcensus counts

167,980

Liberia, census 2008 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)

Atlantic-Congo

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Liberia: 167,980 people in the 2008 census.

Main language: Kissi. Glottolog classifies it in the Atlantic-Congo family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Liberia2008 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Kissi» · [1]

167,980

Languages and their lineage

Kissi

Atlantic-Congoatla1278
Melmela1257
Southern Melbull1245
Kissikiss1245

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Akan Nkole people Kisii people Banyarwanda Gola people Swahili people Yeyi people Yoruba Igbo Zulu Xhosa

Sources

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Liberia, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)