Temne (language)

Temne
Spoken in	Sierra Leone
speaker	1.851 million (native speakers)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger Congo Languages Atlantic Congo languages Atlantic languages South Atlantic languages Mel Temne Temne-Bata Temne ;
Official status
Official language in	-
Recognized minority / ; regional language in	Sierra Leone
Language codes
ISO 639 -2	tem
ISO 639-3	tem

Vowels in Temne

The Temne (also Themne or Timne ) is the language of the Temne and is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by over 1.85 million native speakers in Sierra Leone (as of 2015), i.e. about 26.5 percent of the population .

It is used as an administrative language in several districts of the country.

Temne is related to the Baga languages spoken in Guinea .

literature

Peace Corps (Ed.): Sierra Leone Temne Language Manual. Freetown 1989, available online
Abdul Karim Turay: Temne Stories · Tales of Temne · Mump me Themne , Cologne 1989, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, ISBN 9783927620766 .
Abou Bai-Sheka: Temne names and proverbs , Freetown 1986, People \ u2019s Educational Association of Sierra Leone, ISBN 9780978090814 .

WAA Wilson: An outline of the Temne language , London 1961, University of London / SOAS.

Web links

Temne on Ethnologue.com (English)
Language brochure (PDF; English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Themne. A language of Sierra Leone. Ethnologue. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
↑ Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census national analytical report. Statistics Sierra Leone, October 2017, p. 89ff.

[ethnologue-1] Themne. A language of Sierra Leone. Ethnologue. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

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