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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

pp. 30–2. R E Galli & J Jones (1987). Guinea-Bissau, pp. 33–4, 42. P. K. Mende, (1994). Colonialismo Portuguêse em África: a Tradição de Resistência (1879–1959)...

widely spoken by the total number of speakers is Swahili, which is used as a lingua franca in parts of eastern and southeastern Africa. While the ultimate genetic...