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
Niger–Congo
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.

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