Bullom So language

Bullom So language

language
name=Bullom So
states=Guinea, Sierra Leone
region=coast of Guinea, near the Sierra Leone border
speakers=500 (1998); near extinction
familycolor=Niger-Congo
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Atlantic
fam4=Southern
fam5=Mel
fam6=Bullom-Kissi
fam7=Bullom
fam8=Northern
iso2=nic|iso3=buy

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.

External links

* [http://www.ling.yale.edu:16080/~elf/Childs.html Fieldwork on Mmani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), a dying language of coastal Guinea-Conakry] - a project funded by the Endangered Language Fund
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=buy Ethnologue entry for Bullom So]
* [http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/Africa/AF_src.cgi?language0=0&language1=0&language2=0&language3=Mmani&language4=0&language5=0 Mmani entry in the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages]


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