Yalunka (people)

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Yalunka women near Faranah
Main distribution area of ​​the Yalunka in the north of Sierra Leone

The Yalunka (also Jalonke ) are a people in Guinea , Mali , Senegal and Sierra Leone . They speak the language of the same name Jalonke (Yalunke). In 2014, 169,900 users were documented in all countries, 111,000 of them in Guinea as the center of the distribution area.

Senegal

In the north of the distribution area, in the Kédougou region in southern Senegal, 10,000 speakers were counted in 2007.

Sierra Leone

In 2015, just under 52,000 Yalunka lived in Sierra Leone, which corresponds to 0.7 percent of the total population. About 45,000 of them speak Yalunka as their mother tongue. The Yalunka are said to have immigrated shortly after the Temne , probably from Fouta Djallon , to today's northern province in Sierra Leone .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ethnologue: Guinea Languages ( Memento of April 22, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Ethnologue: Senegal Languages ( Memento from September 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census national analytical report. Statistics Sierra Leone, October 2017, p. 89ff.
  4. ^ People and Culture. Ministry of Information and Communications. Retrieved March 13, 2019.