Bullom So
| Bullom So | ||
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Spoken in |
Guinea , Sierra Leone | |
| speaker | 500 (1998) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
buy |
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The Bullom-So language, also called Mmani or Mandingi , is an endangered West Atlantic language spoken in the border area between Guinea and Sierra Leone .
It belongs to the Limba-Mel group within the language family of the Niger-Congo languages and is closely related to the Bom language. The members of the ethnic group often married the speakers of the Temnian language and Susu speakers . As a result, their descendants were taught English as their mother tongue, which is also the only language of instruction in schools in the country. Since the few remaining speakers for Bullom So are all over 60, the language is considered moribund .
Web links
- Fieldwork on Mmani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), a dying language of coastal Guinea-Conakry - a project funded by the Endangered Language Fund
- Ethnologue entry for Bullom So
- Mmani entry in the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages