Mende language
Spoken language
Mende is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia and Guinea. It is spoken by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone.
Mende is a tonal language belonging... Wikipedia
Language families: Niger–Congo languages and Mande languages
Dialects: Ko; Kpa; Sewawa; Wanjama
Ethnicity: Mende people
Native speakers: 2.5 million (2020–2021)
Region: South central Sierra Leone
Writing system: Latin; Mende Kikakui script
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