• The Kpelle /kəˈpɛlə/ language (endonym: "Kpɛlɛɛ") is spoken by the Kpelle people of Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast and is part of the Mande language family...
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    into Guinea. They speak the Kpelle language, which belongs to the Mande language family. Despite their yearly heavy rainfalls and rough land, Kpelle survive...
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    Several indigenous languages have been given the status of national languages: Fula (or Pular); Malinké (or Maninka); Susu; Kissi; Kpelle (also known in French...
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  • The Kpelle syllabary was invented c. 1935 by Chief Gbili of Sanoyie, Liberia. It was intended for writing the Kpelle language, a member of the Mande group...
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  • official languages is French) Wamey: Guinea (a national language along with Fula, Kissi, Kpelle, Malinke, Susu, Toma, Oniyan, the official language is French)...
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    as their first language. The remainder of the population has other native languages, including Kissi and Kpelle. The population of Guinea comprises about...
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    second language. The native Niger-Congo languages can be grouped in four language families: Mande, Kru, Mel, and the divergent language Grebo . Kpelle-speaking...
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    (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people...
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  • Maninka (Malinke), Susu, Kissi and Kpelle languages. They also speak French and English (as second language). The Guinean community participates in Muslim...
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    understood in the interior of the country. Several small groups (Gerzé or Kpelle, Toma, Kissis, etc.) in the forest region and Bagas (including Landoumas)...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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  • 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. Mende, spoken...
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    Maghreb Portuguese language in Africa — predominant in Portuguese-speaking African countries Spanish Guinea — presently Equatorial Guinea Spanish West Africa...
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  • the Kpelle language Kono language (Nigeria) (klk), a Kainji language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kono language. If...
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    The linguistic areas of Forested Guinea contain the main groups of the Kpelle, Loma and Kisi.[citation needed] The Kpelle migrated from West Sudan in the...
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  • British oil and gas exploration company operating in Iraqi Kurdistan Guinea Kpelle language The General Knowledge Paper, run by King William's College This...
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    over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...
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  • Atlantic–Congo languages centered on Senegal, with most languages spoken there and in neighboring southern Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea. The transhumant...
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  • (Mali) Kakabe people (Guinea) Kissi people (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone) Kono people (Sierra Leone) Kpee people (Burkina Faso) Kpelle people (Sierra Leone...
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    The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...
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  • There are two individual language codes assigned: gkp – Guinea Kpelle xpe – Liberia Kpelle kur is the ISO 639-3 language code for Kurdish. Its ISO 639-1...
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  • These languages lie in a band from western Liberia to southeastern Nigeria, and north to southern Burkina Faso. They include: Liberia: Kpelle (Mande);...
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    Liberia (category Language articles citing Ethnologue 25)
    the population. The 16 officially recognized ethnic groups include the Kpelle, Bassa, Mano, Gio or Dan, Kru, Grebo, Krahn, Vai, Gola, Mandingo or Mandinka...
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    250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and...
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    Loma people (category Ethnic groups in Guinea)
    language in the Southwestern branch of the Mande languages, belonging to the Niger-Congo family of languages. The language is similar to the Kpelle,...
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  • Africans spoke a Guinea Coast Creole English, also called West African Pidgin English, before they were forcibly relocated to the Americas. Guinea Coast Creole...
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    Writing systems of Africa (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    for writing the Susu language of Guinea and Sierra Leone. Kpelle syllabary of Liberia and Guinea Loma syllabary of Liberia and Guinea Masaba, a syllabary...
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    of the production and export of Guinea and melegueta pepper; a once staple African seaborne trade". The Kru languages are known for some of the most complex...
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    Related ethnic groups African Americans Baga Kongo Fula Igbo Kissi Jola Kpelle Limba Mandinka Mende Susu Temne Vai Wolof Serer Laalaa Ndut Niominka Noon...
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  • fighting in the city of Nzerekore in July 2013. Fighting between ethnic Kpelle, who are Christian or animist, and ethnic Konianke, who are Muslims and...
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