Mende > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Mende
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Mende-Bandi; Mande; Mɛndɛ; Boumpe; Hulo; Kossa; Kosso
Spoken in:
Sierra Leone, Liberia
Number of speakers:
1,480,000 in Sierra Leone (2006). Population total all countries: 1,499,700
(Ethnologue)
Code:
men
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Mende-Loko (mdlk)
Child Dialects:
Waanjama (men-waa)
Sewawa (men-sew)
Ko (men-ko)
Kpa (men-kpa)
Map of Mende
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