Bullom So language

Bullom So
Native to	Sierra Leone, Guinea
Region	coast of Guinea, near the Sierra Leone border
Native speakers	8,400 in Sierra Leone (2006)[1] few in Guinea
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Mel Bullom–Kissi Bullom Northern Bullom So
Language codes
ISO 639-3	buy
Glottolog	bull1247[2]

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 Mel 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.

References

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

Literature

• Childs, G. Tucker (2011). A Grammar of Mani. (Mouton Grammar Library; 54.) Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-3-11-026497-5

External links

• Select Portions of the Book of Common Prayer, according to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland (1816), translated by Gustavus Reinhold Nyländer, digitized by Richard Mammana
• Mani Documentation Project (2004-2006), Documenting the moribund language Mani, a Southern Atlantic language of Niger-Congo