Mende : Teach Yourself The Elements Of The Mende Language

The history of the M?nde language in Sierra Leone and Liberia can be traced back as far as the migration period of the Mandi people from North-Central Africa during the disintegration of the Songhai Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries. M?nde remains a living language today. Unfortunately, strange and deplorable developments over the last five decades have negatively affected the spread of the M?nde language. Since the colonial expansion into South-Eastern Sierra Leone, the M?nde people quickly became more educated. The result was that an elitist group of educated M?ndes frowned upon speaking the M?nde language in public. This elitist, educated M?nde group preferred to speak English or the obliterated English referred to as

• | Author: Rev Momoh Sylvester Foh
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Dec 02, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 138 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1790637929
• | ISBN-13: 9781790637928