The Bandi language, also known as Bande, Gbande, Gbandi and Gbunde, is a Mande language. It is spoken primarily in Lofa County in northern Liberia by the Gbandi people.[1]
Bandi has six dialects: Hasala, Hembeh, Lukasa, Wawana, Wulukoha, and Tahamba, which is the dialect used for literature.[1] The dialects have a lexical similarity of 96% among one another, and 83% with the most similar dialect of the Mende language.[1]
The Bandi language, also known as Bande, Gbande, Gbandi and Gbunde, is a Mande language. It is spoken primarily in Lofa County in northern Liberia by...
Gbandi (or Bandi, Bande, Gbande, Gbunde) is an ethnic group of Liberia. It is also the language traditionally spoken by these people. Famous Gbandi Personalities:...
Swiss track and field athlete Gbandi (or Bandi), people of Liberia and Guinea Gbandilanguage (or Bandi), a Mande language spoken by that people Bandi River...
Loma, spoken by around 25,000 around Macenta and Guéckédougou, Guinea. Gbandi, spoken by around 100,000 in Liberia. A likely internal classification is...
Liberia, extending into Guinea. They speak the Kpelle language, which belongs to the Mande language family. Despite their yearly heavy rainfalls and rough...
may enable a revival. The Vai people speak the Vai language, which is one of the Mande languages. The Sierra Leonean Vai are predominantly found in Pujehun...
It is also the language traditionally spoken by these people. Population is estimated at 25,000 Zialo is a Southwestern Mande language. Zialo has five...
and Sierra Leone. They speak the Kissi language, which belongs to the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family. The Kissi are well known for making...
the author compares 280 words from 200 African languages and dialects (or about 120 separate languages according to today's classification; several varieties...
forced to retreat toward Sierra Leone. They were pursued by the Mende, Gbandi and Loma. Their battles with the Mende in Sierra Leone forced them to retreat...
Loma speak a language in the Southwestern branch of the Mande languages, belonging to the Niger-Congo family of languages. The language is similar to...
an endonym for the people and language, but other groups refer to them as Loko. They speak a Southwestern Mande language that is also called Loko. The...
the Mende language (also called Boumpe, Hulo, Kossa, or Kosso), which belongs to the Mande language branch of the proposed Niger-Congo language family....
such as citizenship/nationality, ancestry or origin, country of birth, or language are used as alternative indicators. The data in the list are also of variable...
Leone at some point before 1400 CE invading land then-inhabited possibly by Gbandi people pushing them eastwards into Liberia. The Temne started resettling...
minorities. The primary Muslim ethnic groups are the Vai and Mandingo but also Gbandi, Kpelle and other ethnic groups. Historically, Liberian Muslims have followed...
Dan, Kru, Grebo, Krahn, Vai, Gola, Mandingo or Mandinka, Mende, Kissi, Gbandi, Loma, Dei or Dewoin, Belleh, and Americo-Liberians (or Congo people). The...
the Portland Timbers Josh Ford – goalkeeper for Seattle Sounders FC Chris Gbandi – former player for FC Dallas Julius James – defender for the Columbus Crew...
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