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The Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Krio is spoken by 96 percent of the country's population, [3] [4] and it unites the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and social ...
- Fernandino Creole English
- 830,000 (2022), 7.5 million L2 speakers in Sierra Leone (2022)
- English Creole, AtlanticKrio
- Sierra Leone
Sierra Leonean Creole is an English-based creole language spoken in Sierra Leone by about 8.2 million people, 780,000 of whom speak it as a native languages. It is used as a lingua franca in Sierra Leone and is spoken by about 97% of the population. It is particularly spoken in Western Area of Sierra Leone around Freetown, York Village and the ...
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Saro people (Nigerian Creoles) – sub-ethnic group of the Sierra Leone Creoles who resettled in several Nigerian cities in the late 19th and early 20th century. Krio Fernandinos – descendants of the Creoles of Sierra Leone who migrated to Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea in the late 19th century. Gold Coast Euro-Africans – extensively ...
Griko, nganjëherë shkruhet Grico, është dialekti i greqishtes italote që flitet nga njerëzit Griko në Salento (provinca e Leçes) dhe (i quajtur edhe Grecanico) në Kalabri.
- Italy
- (20,000 cituar më 1981), 40,000 deri në 50,000 folës L2
An exhibition in London is seeking to raise awareness of the history of Sierra Leone's Krio people.
Oct 4, 2019 · The Krio people of Sierra Leone are partly descended from former enslaved Africans who fought for the British in the American War of Independence, in exchange for promises of freedom.
Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone (estimated 5.5 Million population), is used natively by approximately 400,000 speakers living primarily in Freetown and surrounding villages though over 4 Million non-native speakers use it proficiently in various domains of communication daily. Krio emerged from creole varieties used primarily by ...
