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

countries, such as Guinea, The Gambia, and Senegal.[citation needed] Mende is a regional lingua franca of southeastern Sierra Leone, although almost the entire...

diverse country, home to approximately 18 ethnic groups, with the Temne and Mende peoples being predominant. The Creole people, descendants of freed African-American...

indigenous population from 18 ethnic groups. The Temne in the north and the Mende in the south are the largest. About 60,000 are Krio, the descendants of...

different ethnic groups across Sierra Leone. Other major languages include Mende, which is spoken by 31% of the population as a mother tongue and is also...

of the west side of the world should sing a mass beneath it". Lisa Anne Mende, in Mythlore, contrasts the happy eucatastrophes which rescue Minas Tirith...

and the morphological systems of Zialo are closer to those of Bandi and Mende. Zialo is characterized by the extensive use of nasal vowels and consonants...

merchants who drove the ship and seized of it. Most of the slaves were Mende people, but also had people of other tribes such as the Temne. The Amistad...

In 2020, a study inferred that the Fulani of western Cameroon have 48% Mende-related, 23% East African-related, and 29% non-African-related ancestry...

Mano, Gio or Dan, Kru, Grebo, Krahn, Vai, Gola, Mandingo or Mandinka, Mende, Kissi, Gbandi, Loma, Dei or Dewoin, Belleh, and Americo-Liberians (or Congo...