• The Sherbro language (also known as Southern Bullom, Shiba, Amampa, Mampa, and Mampwa) is an endangered language of Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Mel...
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  • The Sherbro people are a native people of Sierra Leone, who speak the Sherbro language; they make up 1.9% of Sierra Leone's population or 134,606. The...
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  • Sherbro may refer to: Sherbro people, a people of Sierra Leone Sherbro language, a language of Sierra Leone Sherbro Island, an island off the coast of...
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  • Bonthe (redirect from Bonthe, Sherbro)
    on Sherbro Island in Bonthe District in the southern Province of Sierra Leone. The town lies on the eastern shore of Sherbro Island, on the Sherbro River...
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    Sierra Leone rivers as well as in neighboring areas such as the Bullom and Sherbro coasts. These settlers intermarried with the local population leading to...
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  • Canada Bun language, Yuat language of Papua New Guinea Bun language (Vanuatu) or Mwotlap language, an Oceanic language Sherbro language of Sierra Leone...
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  • The Tuckers of Sherbro are[citation needed] an Afro-European clan from the Southern region of Sierra Leone. The clan's progenitors were an English trader...
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  • referred to as one language or dialect continuum, divided into Southern Bullom (Krim and Sherbro) and Northern Bullom (Bullom So). The languages are: Bom (Krim)...
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  • acculturation. The Bullom So (Mani) language is a Niger-Congo language of Mel subgroup. It is closely related to Kisi, Sherbro, Kim and Bom. The most common...
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    District in the south are the Sherbro. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. The Sherbro are primarily fisherman and...
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  • the Sherbro people, who are native to Sierra Leone. The word Baw Baw is literally translated as "if you can make it through" in the Sherbro language. "Press...
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  • The word Adonkia is literally translated as where is this in the Sherbro language. In the mid eighteenth century a number of Ghanaians settled in the...
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  • groups, although the Sherbro are the largest ethnic group in the town, followed by the Temne people. Bureh Town was founded by the Sherbro people, and the...
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  • into the Sherbro Language of West Africa (1839) Journal of the Niger Expedition (1842) Vocabulary and Elements of Grammar of the Haussa Language (1843)...
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    District in the south are the Sherbro. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. The Sherbro are primarily fisherman and...
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  • founded by Sherbro fishermen and farmers from the town of Shenge. They named the area Tissana which means new town in the Sherbro language. http://www...
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    official language, and Krio is the most widely spoken language among the different ethnic groups across Sierra Leone. Other major languages include Mende...
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    Atlantic languages (also the Atlantic languages or North Atlantic languages) of West Africa are a major subgroup of the Niger–Congo languages. The Atlantic...
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  • cultural heritage, language and history and who live primarily in western/northwestern Liberia and Eastern Sierra Leone. The Gola language is an isolate within...
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    Julius Maada Bio (category Sherbro people)
    Julius Maada Wonie Bio, who was also a Sherbro paramount chief of Sogbini Chiefdom. Bio is an ethnic Sherbro, and a practicing Roman Catholic. Bio began...
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    Sierra Leone Creole people (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (producing Afro-European clans such as the Sherbro Tuckers and Sherbro Caulkers). As a result, some of the Sherbro have a more westernized culture than that...
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  • Mulatto (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Fernandinos Gold Coast Euro-Africans Saro people Sherbro Hubris Sherbro Tuckers Sherbro Caulkers Sherbro Rogers Sherbro Clevelands Sierra Leone Creole people Africans...
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  • The Mel languages are a branch of Niger–Congo languages spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The most populous is Temne, with about...
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  • Ricketts is almost entirely made up of the Creole and Sherbro ethnic groups. Krio is the primary language of communication in the village. Ricketts was founded...
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    marriage, in 1965, was to Patricia Tucker, a devout Christian from the Sherbro ethnic group and a native of Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone....
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    carried. He was himself enslaved by the Sherbro and forced to work on a plantation in Sierra Leone near the Sherbro River. After several months he came to...
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    group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
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    Fula people (category Articles containing Fula-language text)
    University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108562423.002 Misevich, “The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora,” 254. Curtin, P., & Vansina, J. (1964). Sources of the Nineteenth...
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    District in the south are the Sherbro. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. The Sherbro are primarily fisherman and...
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  • He argued that the major battle against the Bullom happened on or near Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone. The Quoja, rather than being a Kru-speaking part...
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