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The Americo-Liberians introduced a form of African-American Vernacular English that influenced the existing pidgin English or patois that existed in the region of Liberia from the pre-colonial era. This form, called Standard Liberian English or Liberian Settler English, continues to be spoken by descendants of the original settlers today.
Merico or Americo-Liberian (or the informal colloquial name "American") is an English-based creole language spoken until recently in Liberia by Americo-Liberians, descendants of original settlers, freed slaves, and African Americans who emigrated from the United States between 1821 and the 1870s.
This is a page for the Liberian ethnic group Americo-Liberian people which is the ethnic group descended from African American, Caribbean, and liberated African people from the United States and Caribbean who migrated to Liberia or were recaptured on en route to slavery and were released in Monrovia.
Americo-Liberians formed a cultural elite in Liberia that produced every Liberian president before 1980. The following presidents of Liberia, however, were born in the United States : Joseph Jenkins Roberts , first and seventh president.
Liberian Americans are an ethnic group of Americans of full or partial Liberian ancestry. This can include Liberians who are descendants of Americo-Liberian people in America. The majority of Liberians came to the United States during the First Liberian Civil War in the 1990s and the Second Liberian Civil War in the early 2000s.
William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Liberian politician who served as the 20th president of Liberia from 1971 until his assassination in 1980. Tolbert was an Americo-Liberian and trained as a civil servant before entering the House of Representatives in 1943 for the True Whig Party, then the only established party ...
English is the official language, and Liberian Kreyol 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. [1] [2] Kpelle-speaking people are the largest single linguistic group.
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