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Liberia is a multilingual country where more than 20 indigenous languages are spoken. English is the official language, and Liberian Koloqua is the vernacular lingua franca, though mostly spoken as a second language. The native Niger–Congo languages can be grouped in four language families: Mande, Kru, Mel, and the divergent language Grebo.
It is the language taught in secondary and tertiary institutions. It is used in oratory and by newsreaders. Liberian Settler English the language of the descendants of the 16,000 African Americans who immigrated to Liberia in the nineteenth century; Kru Pidgin English the language of Kru migrant workers and mariners. It is now moribund.
Pages in category "Languages of Liberia" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Gola is a language of Liberia and Sierra Leone. It was traditionally classified as an Atlantic language , but this is no longer accepted in more recent studies. Classification
Bai T. Moore's novella Murder in the Cassava Patch is required reading for many Liberian high-school students. Published in 1968, the book is based on the true story of a murder, and explores the most taboo subjects in mid-20th-century Liberia as the story reveals the lives of the main characters and their hometown. E. G.
Liberian Kreyol (also known as Kolokwa or Liberian Kolokwa English) is an Atlantic English-based creole language spoken in Liberia. [1] It was spoken by 1,500,000 people as a second language at the 1984 census, which accounted for about 70% of the population at the time.
The Kpelle syllabary was invented c. 1935 by Chief Gbili of Sanoyie, Liberia. It was intended for writing the Kpelle language , a member of the Mande group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by about 490,000 people in Liberia and around 300,000 people in Guinea at that time.
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