Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Mende language
The Mende language is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia. It is spoken both by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca. Mende belongs to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo language family. In 1921, Kisimi Kamala invented a syllabary for Mende he called Ki-ka-ku. The script achieved widespread use for a time but has largely been replaced with an orthography using the Latin alphabet.
External links
- Ethnologue entry for Mende
- Bibiliography on Mende
- [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mende.htm The Mende syllabary (Omniglot)
Last updated: 10-12-2005 05:25:24
10-26-2009 08:16:03
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details