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<td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Sierra Leone]] is a multilingual country.<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/country/SL Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. (Page on "Sierra Leone.)]</ref> [[English language|English]] is the [[official language]], and [[Krio language|Krio]] is the most widely spoken language among the different ethnic groups across Sierra Leone.<ref>[http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=11244&rog3=SL "Sierra Leone languages"], Joshua Project</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.language9.com/languages/translation/krio-translation.html |title=Krio Translation Services |publisher=Language9.com |access-date=20 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181">{{Cite book |last1 = Oyètádé |first1 = B. Akíntúndé |last2 = Fashole-Luke |first2 = Victor|title = Language and National Identity in Africa |place = Oxford |publisher = Oxford University Press |chapter = Sierra Leone: Krio and the Quest for National Integration |pages = 122–140 |chapter-url = https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181|date = 15 February 2008 |isbn = 978-0-19-928675-1 }}</ref> </div></td>
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<td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other major languages include [[Mende language|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 Eastern part of Sierra Leone. [[Temne language|Temne]], which is spoken by 32% as a mother tongue, is also widely spoken in the northern province and the north Western province. Other languages include [[Kono language (Sierra Leone)|Kono]], [[Kissi language|Kissi]], [[Kuranko language|Kuranko]], [[Limba language|Limba]], [[Fula language|Fula]] ([[Pular language|Pular]]), [[Mandingo language|Mandingo]] and [[Susu language|Susu]]. In 2002, in a gesture of gratitude to [[Bangladesh]] for the contributions of the [[Bangladesh UN Peacekeeping Force]] deployed in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, the President of Sierra Leone [[Ahmad Tejan Kabbah]] declared [[Bengali language|Bengali]] as an honorary official language of Sierra Leone.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/2017/02/23/bangla-language-sierra-leone |title=Why Bangla is an official language in Sierra Leone |date=2017-02-24 |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=[[Dhaka Tribune]] |last=Online Report |first=Tribune |archive-url=https://archive.ph/Ah1DX |archive-date=2022-10-26 |url-status=live}}</ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thedailynewnation.com/news/125160/recounting-the-sacrifices-that-made-bangla-the-state-language |title=Recounting the sacrifices that made Bangla the State Language |newspaper=The New Nation |accessdate=27 August 2023}}</ref> </ins></div></td>
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<td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Sierra Leone]] is a multilingual country.<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/country/SL Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. (Page on "Sierra Leone.)]</ref> [[English language|English]] is the [[official language]], and [[Krio language|Krio]] is the most widely spoken language among the different ethnic groups across Sierra Leone.<ref>[http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=11244&rog3=SL "Sierra Leone languages"], Joshua Project</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.language9.com/languages/translation/krio-translation.html |title=Krio Translation Services |publisher=Language9.com |access-date=20 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181">{{Cite book |last1 = Oyètádé |first1 = B. Akíntúndé |last2 = Fashole-Luke |first2 = Victor|title = Language and National Identity in Africa |place = Oxford |publisher = Oxford University Press |chapter = Sierra Leone: Krio and the Quest for National Integration |pages = 122–140 |chapter-url = https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181|date = 15 February 2008 |isbn = 978-0-19-928675-1 }}</ref> </div></td>
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<td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other major languages include [[Mende language|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 Eastern part of Sierra Leone. [[Temne language|Temne]], which is spoken by 32% as a mother tongue, is also widely spoken in the northern province and the north Western province. Other languages include [[Kono language (Sierra Leone)|Kono]], [[Kissi language|Kissi]], [[Kuranko language|Kuranko]], [[Limba language|Limba]], [[Fula language|Fula]] ([[Pular language|Pular]]), [[Mandingo language|Mandingo]] and [[Susu language|Susu]].<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> In 2002, in a gesture of gratitude to [[Bangladesh]] for the contributions of the [[Bangladesh UN Peacekeeping Force]] deployed in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, the President of Sierra Leone [[Ahmad Tejan Kabbah]] declared [[Bengali language|Bengali]] as an honorary official language of Sierra Leone.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/2017/02/23/bangla-language-sierra-leone |title=Why Bangla is an official language in Sierra Leone |date=2017-02-24 |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=[[Dhaka Tribune]] |last=Online Report |first=Tribune |archive-url=https://archive.ph/Ah1DX |archive-date=2022-10-26 |url-status=live}}</ref></ins></div></td>
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<td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Sierra Leone]] is a multilingual country.<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/country/SL Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. (Page on "Sierra Leone.)]</ref> [[English language|English]] is the [[official language]], and [[Krio language|Krio]] is the most widely spoken language among the different ethnic groups across Sierra Leone.<ref>[http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=11244&rog3=SL "Sierra Leone languages"], Joshua Project</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.language9.com/languages/translation/krio-translation.html |title=Krio Translation Services |publisher=Language9.com |access-date=20 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181">{{Cite book |last1 = Oyètádé |first1 = B. Akíntúndé |last2 = Fashole-Luke |first2 = Victor|title = Language and National Identity in Africa |place = Oxford |publisher = Oxford University Press |chapter = Sierra Leone: Krio and the Quest for National Integration |pages = 122–140 |chapter-url = https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/181|date = 15 February 2008 |isbn = 978-0-19-928675-1 }}</ref> </div></td>
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