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Southwestern Mande
Geographic
distribution
Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • Southwestern Mande
Subdivisions
  • Kpelle
  • Loma-Mende
Glottologsout2842

The Southwestern Mande languages are a branch of the Mande languages spoken in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. There are around 2.8 million total speakers. The largest languages by far are Mende of Sierra Leone, with 1.4 million, and Kpelle of Liberia and Guinea, with 1.2 million.

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Southwestern Mande languages

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Loko people

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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...

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Gbandi people

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as some traditional beliefs. Gbandi is a Southwestern Mande language. There are six dialects of the language: Tahamba, Wawana, Wulukoha, Hasala, Lukasa...

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Zialo language

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(self-identification Ziolo) is a language spoken by the Zialo people in Guinea. The language of Zialo which belongs to the Southwestern group of the Mande branch of the...

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Mende language

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lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. Mende is a tonal language belonging to the Mande language family. Early systematic descriptions of Mende were by...

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Jeri language

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Mande language of northwestern Ivory Coast and southwestern Burkina Faso. The two had been thought until recently to be dialects of a single language...

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proposed but undemonstrated group of languages linking the Ijaw languages (Ịjọ) with the endangered Defaka language. The similarities, however, may be due...

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families. The classifications below follow Glottolog. Mande, some 70 languages, including the major languages of Mali and Guinea; these are generally thought...

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Loma language

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Loma (Loghoma, Looma, Lorma) is a Mande language spoken by the Loma people of Liberia and Guinea. Dialects of Loma proper in Liberia are Gizima, Wubomei...

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Kpelle language

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/kəˈpɛlə/ language (endonym: "Kpɛlɛɛ") is spoken by the Kpelle people of Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast and is part of the Mande language family. Guinean...

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Kuranko language

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Kuranko is a Mande language spoken in Southwestern Africa by approximately 350,000 Kuranko people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Guinea it blends into...

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Gbandi language

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Zialo people

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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...

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Bantoid languages

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Dogon languages

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List of language families

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