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The Mende people speak the Mende language (also called Boumpe, Hulo, Kossa, or Kosso), which belongs to the Mande language branch of the proposed Niger-Congo language family. [6] In the 1930s African-American linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner found a Gullah family in coastal Georgia that had preserved an ancient song in the Mende language ("A waka ...
People of Mende descent (1 C) K. Kposowa family (4 P) M. Margai family (Sierra Leone) (4 P) Mende language (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Mende people"
Following the fall of the great Empires of the Northern Mandé-speaking people (Mandinka and Soninke ethnic groups), the presence of other Mandé-speaking people came about. These were the Mane , Southern Mandé speakers ( Mende , Gbandi , Kpelle , Loma ethnic groups) who invaded the western coast of Africa from the east during the first half ...
Mende people (4 C, 35 P) Mandé mythology (4 P) S. Soninke people (10 P) Susu people (25 P) Pages in category "Mandé people" The following 20 pages are in this ...
The Mende are a Muslim majority group, though with a large Christian minority. The Mende, who are believed to be descendants of the Mane, originally occupied the Liberian hinterland. They began moving into Sierra Leone slowly and peacefully in the eighteenth century. The vast majority of the Mende support the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). [1]
The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, accounting for 33.2 percent of the country’s population. The tribe is generally found in the east and the south of the country.
This is a list of Mandé peoples of Africa.. The predominant countries of each group's residence are shown in bold and are italicised. Manding (whose languages are in the Manding languages group of Mande)
The following is a table of major ethnic groups (10 million people or more): Major ethnic groups Region Countries Language family Pop. (millions) (year) Akan: