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Kono people. The Kono people (pronounced koh noh) are a major Mande-speaking ethnic group in Sierra Leone at 5.2% of the country's total population. Their homeland is the diamond -rich Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone. The Kono are primarily diamond miners and farmers . The Kono people speak the Kono language as their first language and is ...
Kɔnɔ. Language codes. ISO 639-3. kno. Glottolog. kono1268. The Kono language (Kɔnɔ) 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.
The third largest ethnic group are the Limba at around 6.4% of the population. The Limba are Indigenous people of Sierra Leone and speak various dialects of a language largely unrelated to other tribal languages in Sierra Leone. They are primarily found in the Northern Province, particularly in Bombali District, Koinadugu and Kambia District.
Sierra Leone is a multilingual country. [1] English is the official language, and Krio is the most widely spoken language among the different ethnic groups across Sierra Leone. [2] [3] [4] Other major languages include Mende, which is spoken by 31% of the population as a mother tongue and is also widely spoken in the southern, and most of the ...
French, Fula. The Republic of Guinea is a multilingual country, with over 40 languages spoken. The official language is French, which was inherited from colonial rule. Several indigenous languages have been given the status of national languages: Fula (or Pular); Malinké (or Maninka); Susu; Kissi; Kpelle (also known in French as Guerzé) and ...
Kongo dia Ntotila (or Ntotela), Loango, Ngoyo and Kakongo. The Kongo people ( Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) [3] [4] are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo. [5] Subgroups include the Beembe, Bwende, Vili, Sundi, Yombe, Dondo, Lari, and others.
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, [ Jp. 1] often referred to simply as KonoSuba, is a Japanese light novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki and illustrated by Kurone Mishima. The series follows Kazuma Satou, a boy who is sent to a fantasy world with MMORPG elements following his death, where he forms a dysfunctional ...
Foamansa Matturi (c. 1855–1936) was a Sierra Leonean ruler who led his fellow Kono people in fighting abilities and a diplomacy that helped bring stability to Kono District, a region that was continually the target of invasions from both its Sierra Leonean neighbours and Samori Toure's Mandinka warriors from French Guinea (now Guinea).