| Also Known As: Tau,Kubiwat,Seim,Mende language,Kossa,Kosso,Boumpe,Hulo
Description:
Mende (Mɛnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia. It is spoken both 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. 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 orthography using the Latin alphabet.
It was used extensively in the movies Amistad and Blood Diamond...... full article at Wikipedia |
