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Lingua mende

Mende
Mɛnde yia
Mɛnde yia
Falado en: Serra Leoa Serra Leoa
Liberia Liberia
Total de falantes: 1,5 millóns (2006)
Familia: Níxer-congo
 Mandé
  Mandé occidental
   Mandé suroccidental
    Mende–Loma
     Mende–Bandi
      Mende–Loko
       Mende
Escrita: Latino; silabario mende de Kisimi Kamara
Códigos de lingua
ISO 639-1: --
ISO 639-2: men
ISO 639-3: men
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A lingua mende (Mɛnde yia) é unha lingua falada en Serra Leoa e nalgunhas zonas da veciña Liberia. É falada polo pobo mende e por outros grupos étnicos, xa que actúa como unha lingua franca no sur de Serra Leoa.

Mende é unha lingua tonal da póla mandé da familia de linguas níxer-congo. A descrición sistemática máis antiga do mende foi feita por F. W. Migeod [1] e Kenneth Crosby.[2]

En 1921, Kisimi Kamara inventou o silabario para o mende chamado Kikakui (Kikaku). Esta escrita foi usada amplamente durante un tempo, mais acabou por ser substituída por un alfabeto baseado no latino.[3] A Biblia foi traducida ó mende en 1959.

No cinema

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Foi usada en filmes como Amistad e Diamante de sangue.

  1. Migeod, F. W. 1908. The Mende language. Londres
  2. Crosby, Kenneth. 1944. An Introduction to the Study of Mende. Cambridge University Press.
  3. Unseth, Peter. 2011. Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization. In The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts, ed. by Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia García, pp. 23-32. New York: Oxford University Press.

Véxase tamén

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