Loko (language)
| Loko | ||
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Spoken in |
Sierra Leone | |
| speaker | 92,000 (2015) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
loc |
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Loko , rarely also Landogo , is a Mande language of the Loko in Sierra Leone and southern Guinea . It is spoken by around 92,000 people in Sierra Leone (as of 2015) as their mother tongue.
With Buya, Gbendembu, Koya, Laia, Libisegahun, Magbiambo, Nagbanmba, Ngoahu, Ribbi and Sanda, there are at least ten known dialects.
Web links
- Loko, on Ethnologue.com (English)