Loko, or Landogo, is a Southwestern Mande language spoken by the Loko people, who primarily live in Northern Sierra Leone. There are two known dialects, Landogo and Logo, which are mutually intelligible. Ethnic Loko outnumber native Loko speakers due to the linguistic encroachment of Temne and Krio and urbanization to Freetown, where Loko is internally and externally seen as a low-prestige language.[2]
| Loko | |
|---|---|
| Landogo | |
| Pronunciation | /læn.dɔɣɔ/ |
| Native to | Sierra Leone |
| Ethnicity | Loko people |
Native speakers | 210,000 (2019)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
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| African reference alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lok |
| Glottolog | loko1255 |
Citations
edit- ^ Loko at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Speed, Clarke Karney. Swears and Swearing Among Landogo of Sierra Leone: Aesthetics, Adjudication, and the Philosophy of Power. University of Washington, 1991.
References
edit- Kimball, Les. 1983. A description of the grammar of Loko. Freetown. Institute for Sierra Leonean Languages.
- Innes, Gordon. 1964. An outline grammar of Loko with texts. African Language Studies, pp. 115-178.
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