Bullom So language
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| Bullom So | ||
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| Spoken in: | Guinea, Sierra Leone | |
| Region: | coast of Guinea, near the Sierra Leone border | |
| Total speakers: | 500 (1998); near extinction | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Atlantic Southern Mel Bullom-Kissi Bullom Northern Bullom So |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nic | |
| ISO 639-3: | buy | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
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 Atlantic 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.
[edit] External links
- Fieldwork on Mmani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), a dying language of coastal Guinea-Conakry - a project funded by the Endangered Language Fund
- Ethnologue entry for Bullom So
- Mmani entry in the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages
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