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    Mende /ˈmɛndi/ (Mɛnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia and Guinea. It is spoken by the Mende people...
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    The Mende Kikakui script is a syllabary used for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone. The script was devised by Mohamed Turay (ca. 1850-1923),...
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    slightly larger than the Mende at 31.2%. The Mende are predominantly found in the Southern Province and the Eastern Province. The Mende are mostly farmers and...
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  • Mende may refer to: Mende people Mende language Seim language, also called Mende language Mende syllabary (Kikakui) Mende (surname) Mende Nazer (born...
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    Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people, chiefly in...
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  • Amistad (film) (category Mende-language films)
    the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their...
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  • among one another, and 83% with the most similar dialect of the Mende language. Languages of Liberia Gbandi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e v t e...
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  • neighbor the Mende people, and most Sherbro in Southeastern Sierra Leone speak the Mende language and they have integrated large amounts of the Mende tradition...
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  • Masam are almost entirely from the Mende ethnic group, and the Mende language is by far the most widely spoken language in the town. Vandy, Sahid V (2006-04-20)...
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  • the intended characters. Mende Kikakui is a Unicode block containing the Kikakui characters for writing the Mende language. The following Unicode-related...
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  • are written in languages spoken in Sierra Leone. Most African texts gathered by historian Turner are belonging to the Mende language. But Dr. Cabello...
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  • 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. Mende, spoken by 1.4...
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    principal home of the Mende people, who form the plurality of the city's population. As with most parts of Sierra Leone, the Krio language of the Sierra Leone...
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  • Mendiland (category Mende people)
    Leone[citation needed] on the western coast of Africa, where the Mende tribe lives and the Mende language is spoken. The slaves who rebelled on the Amistad in 1839...
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    in the life of the Mende people - one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone. Art historian Ruth Phillips writes that Mende masquerades "are a...
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  • Seim, or Mende, is a Sepik language of Yirwondi ward and surroundings (3°39′58″S 142°34′15″E / 3.666057°S 142.570816°E / -3.666057; 142.570816 (Seim...
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    Mende (French pronunciation: [mɑ̃d], Occitan pronunciation: [ˈmende]) is a commune and the prefecture of the department of Lozère, in the region of Occitania...
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  • Milton Margai (category Mende people)
    midwives and was the author of an instruction manual on midwifery in the Mende language. The women whom Margai trained became known as "Mamma Nurses", and were...
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    changes in its socio-political and economic spheres. Other major languages include Mende, which is spoken by 31% of the population as a mother tongue and...
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  • particularly closely related to the Bullom So language. Most speakers are bilingual in Mende. Use of the Bom language is declining among members of the ethnic...
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    Mende Nazer (born c. 1982) is a UK-resident, Sudanese author and human rights activist. Nazer was a slave in Sudan and in London for eight years. She...
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  • List of constructed scripts (category Constructed languages)
    Middle-Earth, Houghton Mifflin, 1989 "Unker Non-Linear Writing System". s.ai. Retrieved 2023-08-23. Constructed scripts and languages at omniglot.com...
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  • Columbia University. For her thesis, "A Grammar of the Mende Language", she worked with Mende speaker Dwight Sumner from Sierra Leone. Additionally, Aginsky...
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  • the Hausa Language (1857-1861) Grammar of the Haussa Language (1862) Dictionary of the Hausa Language (1876) Vocabulary of the Mende language (1884) Magana...
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    Paionios /piːˈoʊniəs/ (Ancient Greek: Παιώνιος Paiṓnios) of Mende, Chalkidiki was a Greek sculptor of the late 5th century BC. He most likely received...
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    The Diocese of Mende (Latin: Dioecoesis Mimatensis; French: Diocèse de Mende) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese covers...
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  • The population of Gbangbatoke is predominantly from the Mende ethnic group, and the Mende language is widely spoken. Berewa, Solomon E. (December 2011)....
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  • the Bande clan of the Mende people. Residents speak a dialect of the Mende language (Mєnde yia) called Bandi. However, the language of school instruction...
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    The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/ AW-strə-NEE-zhən) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland...
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  • Pujehun are largely from the Mende ethnic group, although like with virtually all areas in Sierra Leone, the Krio language of the Sierra Leone Creole people...
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