🇸🇱 Country
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is home to 26 languages, spoken across West Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Freetown
Nationality
Sierra Leonean
Currency
Sierra Leonean Leone (SLL)
Languages
26
Independence
Apr 27, 1961
23 active
3 endangered
0 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Sierra Leone; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
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fewer / more speakers
Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.
All languages in Sierra Leone
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Arabic
Bom-Kim
Endangered
Bassa
Bullom So
Fula
Gola
Klao
Kuranko
Kono
500K
Krio
Kissi
Limba
Loko
250K
Mende
Maninkakan
Endangered
N’ko
Pular
Sherbro
50K Endangered
Susu
Themne
2.5M
Vai
Yoruba
Yalunka
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