Bullom So language
| Bullom So | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Sierra Leone, Guinea |
| Region | coast of Guinea, near the Sierra Leone border |
Native speakers |
8,400 in Sierra Leone (2006)[1] few in Guinea |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
buy |
| Glottolog |
bull1247[2] |
The Bullom So language, also called Mmani or Mandingi, is an endangered language spoken near the border between Guinea and Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family and is particularly closely related to the Bom language. The people have intermarried with Temne and Susu speakers. As the few remaining speakers of Bullom So are all over 60, the language is considered moribund.
References
- ↑ Bullom So at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bullom So". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Literature
- Childs, G. Tucker (2011). A Grammar of Mani. (Mouton Grammar Library; 54.) Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-3-11-026497-5
External links
- Select Portions of the Book of Common Prayer, according to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland (1816), translated by Gustavus Reinhold Nyländer, digitized by Richard Mammana
- Mani Documentation Project (2004-2006), Documenting the moribund language Mani, a Southern Atlantic language of Niger-Congo
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