Susu (language)

Susu (Sosokui)
Spoken in	Guinea , Sierra Leone , Guinea-Bissau
speaker	approx. 1 million
Linguistic ; classification	Niger Congo Languages Mande languages Susu ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	sus
ISO 639-3	sus

Susu ( Soussou , Sosokui ) is the language of the Susu from Guinea , West Africa .

It belongs to the Mande language family .

Susu is one of the national languages of Guinea and is mainly spoken in the coastal regions of the country. The language also serves as the language of commerce nationwide in Guinea. With more than 155,000 native speakers (as of 2015) it is also widespread in neighboring Sierra Leone and is also spoken locally in Guinea-Bissau .

Susu is very similar to the Yalunka language .

literature

P. Lacan: Grammaire et dictionnaire française-soussou et soussou-français . Procure de PP du Saint-Esprit, Bordeaux 1942.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census national analytical report. (PDF) Statistics Sierra Leone, October 2017, p. 89 ff.

[1] Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census national analytical report. (PDF) Statistics Sierra Leone, October 2017, p. 89 ff.