Sherbro language

Sherbro
Native to	Sierra Leone
Region	coast of Sierra Leone and Sherbro Island
Native speakers	unknown (140,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Mel Bullom–Kissi Bullom Southern Sherbro
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bun
Glottolog	sher1258[2]

The Sherbro language (also known as Southern Bullom, Shiba, Amampa, Mampa, and Mampwa) is an endangered language of Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family. While Sherbro has more speakers than the other Bullom languages, its use is declining among the Sherbro people, in favor of Krio and English.

References

1. Sherbro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sherbro". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

• Sherbro entry in the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages