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Topic: Bullom So language


  
  Sierra Leone - Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The two main ethnic groups are the Mende, who speak a Mande language and live in the central and southern parts of the country, and the Temne, who speak a W Atlantic language and live in the north.
English is the country's official language and Krio, a mixture of several African languages and English, is the lingua franca.
Beginning c.1500, European traders stopped regularly on the peninsula, exchanging cloth and metal goods for ivory, timber, and small numbers of slaves.
www3.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=43616   (2131 words)

  
 Sierra Leone Bibliography - Compiled by Peter C. Andersen - Sierra Leone Web
Ehret, Rebecca, "Language Attitudes and the Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Identity: The Case of Krio in Sierra Leone." In Languages Choices: Conditions, Constraints and Consequences," edited by Martin Pütz, J. Benjamins [Amsterdam, Philadelphia] 1997.
Kilham, Hannah, "Specimens of African languages, Spoken in the Colony of Sierra Leone," P. White, for a Committee of the Society of Friends [London], 1828.
Sumner, A. [Rev.], "A Hand-Book of the Sherbro Language," Crown Agents for the Colonies for the Government of Sierra Leone [London], 1921.
www.sierra-leone.org /bibliography.html   (9884 words)

  
 Joshua Project - Peoples by Country Profiles
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www.joshuaproject.net /peopctry.php?rop3=101728&rog3=SL   (254 words)

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