Mende (Sierra Leone)

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Mende (Mɛnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia. 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 to the Mande branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Early systematic descriptions of Mende were by F. W. Migeod and Kenneth Crosby. In 1921, Kisimi Kamara invented a syllabary for Mende he called Kikakui . The script achieved widespread use for a time, but has largely been replaced with an alphabet based on the Latin script, and the Mende script is considered a failed script. The Bible was translated into Mende and published in 1959, in Latin script. It was used extensively in the movies Amistad and Blood Diamond.
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[ar] الميند
[az] mende dili
[be] мендэ
[bn] মেন্ডে
[bs] mende
[br] mende
[bg] менде
[ca] mende
[cs] mende
[cy] Mendeg
[da] mende
[de] Mende
[el] Μέντε
[en] Mende (Sierra Leone)
[et] mende
[fa] منده‌ای
[fi] mende
[fr] Mendé
[gu] મેન્ડે
[he] מנדה
[hi] मेन्डे
[hr] Mende
[hu] mende
[id] Mende
[is] mende
[it] Lingua mende
[ja] メンデ語
[kn] ಮೆಂಡೆ
[ks] میندیے
[ko] 멘데어
[lo] ເມນເດ
[lv] mendu
[lt] mende
[ml] മെൻഡെ
[mr] मेन्डे
[mk] мендески
[mt] Mende
[nl] Mende
[nn] mende
[nb] mende
[or] ମେଣ୍ଡେ
[pl] mende
[pt] Língua mende
[rm] mende
[ro] mende
[ru] Менде
[sk] mendi
[sl] mende
[es] Idioma mende
[sr] Менде
[sv] mende
[ta] மென்டீ
[te] మెండే
[th] เมนเด
[tr] Mende
[uk] менде
[vi] Tiếng Mende
[zh] 门德语

Language type : Living

Language resources for Mende (Sierra Leone)

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Wiktionary - Category:Mende language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:mendé [fr]

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ISO 639-2B : men
ISO 639-2T : men
ISO 639-3 : men

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