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Languages of Sierra Leone

The Linguasphere Register records 8 entries for Sierra Leone, spread across 4 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

8Register entries
4Sectors present
6Zones
0Language entries

0= AFRICA 4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN

Register entries recorded in Sierra Leone

CodeEntryLevelNote
00=MANDICZoneCovers the "Mande" grouping (part of the "Congo-Kordofanian", "new Niger-Congo" hypothesis; and part of the …
41=URALICZoneCovers the "Uralic" grouping, including the narrower "Finno-Ugric" grouping (41-A & 41-B).
45=EAST-EURASIAZoneCovers the "East-Asia" reference area, composed of sets not covered in any phylozone, part of the "wider Altaic …
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52-ABB-bbafreetown-creoleVarietyFreetown…
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
90=ATLANTICZoneCovers the "Atlantic" ("old West-Atlantic less Mel") reference area, within the "Transafrican" continental affinity.
94=MELICZoneCovers the "Mel" (southern "old West-Atlantic") grouping, part of the "Volta-Congo" affinity within the wider …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.