Sherbro

BUN

vigorous

Alternate Names: Amampa, Mampa, Mampwa, Shiba, Southern Bullom

Dialects: Ndema Sherbro, Peninsula Sherbro, Shenge Sherbro, Sitia Sherbro. Not intelligible with Krim , or Bullom So ,. Shenge is the prestige dialect. Lexical similarity: 66%–69% with Bullom So ,, 44%–45% with Krim ,, 83%–89% among dialects.

Genealogy:

Niger-Congo
Atlantic-Congo
Atlantic
Southern
Mel
Bullom-Kissi
Bullom
Southern

Demographics: 135,000 (1989 J. Kaiser).

Language Use: Used as L2 by Krim [krm].

Nation of Origin: Sierra Leone

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim.