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Studies in African Linguistics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Subjects

Language obsolescence -- Sierra Leone, Language obsolescence -- Guinea, Endangered languages, Comparative and general grammar--Noun

Abstract

This paper presents the first documentation of the noun class system of the dying language Mani (buy), Bullom So in Ethnologue, a.k.a. Mmani, Mandenyi, etc. spoken in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Mani has some few hundred speakers, all of whom speak either Soso (sus) or Temne (tem) as their everyday language. The Mani are concentrated in a restricted coastal area straddling the border between Guinea and Sierra Leone near the town of Morebaya, Kambia District, in Sierra Leone. A few other speakers are scattered in the littoral region from Conakry to Freetown.

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Article appears in Studies in African Linguistics (http://elanguage.net/journals/sal/index)

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/7381

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