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| Kono | ||
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| Spoken in: | Sierra Leone | |
| Region: | East | |
| Total speakers: | 190,000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Mande Western Mande Central Manding-Vai Vai-Kono Kono |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | none | |
| ISO 639-3: | kno | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Kono language (pronounced Konnoh) is a language spoken in Sierra Leone by the Kono people. The Kono District is situated in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone and contains 14 chiefdoms, each headed by a Paramount Chief. The language varies slightly between chiefdoms.
There is also a Kono dialect of the Kpelle language spoken in Guinea (ISO 639-3 code knu), and a Kono dialect spoken in Nigeria (ISO 639-3 code klk).
References
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version.
- Chiefdom Map of Sierra Leone: OCHA Humanitarian Information Centre and Sierra Leone Information Service, 2001. [1].
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