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The American anthropologist Marion Dusser de Barenne Kilson worked with Mende storytellers in Sierra Leone as a graduate student in 1959 and 1960 (her husband, the political scientist
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Numuvuisia Kpɛlɛɛ ta ti le tɛ yɛ nduwɔ ya hu, tao ti nuvuu yei kɛɛ ti lɔnyi maa hɛwungɔ. Kiiya kɛɛ hindaluahu gɔɔla a yɛlɔ ti hun. Fale mahoungɔ ti ti nyɔnyɔhu hoi kia ndeegaa.
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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Ralph Eberl-Elber, an Austrian ethnologist, published two Mende tales with English translations as he heard them in Sierra Leone in the 1935.
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Unseth, Peter (2011). "Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization". In Fishman, Joshua A.; García, Ofelia (eds.).
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For Mende proverbs in Mende and English translation, see "Some Mεnde Proverbs," an article published by M. Mary Senior in 1947.
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The Mende Language, Containing Useful Phrases, Elementary Grammar, Short Vocabularies, Reading Materials.
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people of present-day Georgia and their ancestors from Sierra Leone, beginning with the work of
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A Mende Orthography Workshop: Ministry of Education, Freetown, January 21-25, 1980
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The Success–Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London
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Reader's Guide to African Folktales at the Internet Archive
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Pemagbi, Joe. 1991. "A guide to Mende orthography." SLADEA.
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In 1908, F.W.H. Migeod, a British civil servant, published
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who documented Gullah memories of the Mende language.
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Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Mende (1916)
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Royal Antelope and Spider: West African Mende Tales.
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Index

Mende language (Papua New Guinea)
Mɛnde yia

Sierra Leone
Liberia
Guinea
Mende people
Language family
Niger–Congo
Mande
Western
Southwestern
Mende–Loma
Mende–Bandi
Mende–Loko
Writing system
Latin
Mende Kikakui script
ISO 639-2
men
ISO 639-3
men
Glottolog
mend1266
IPA
rendering support
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Unicode
Help:IPA
/ˈmɛndi/

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