Niger-Congo family
Mende
c. 1000 CE – today Living
Mende (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Niger-Congo language. Lineage: Proto-Niger-Congo → Proto-Mande → Mende.
See Mende on the interactive map- Speakers
- 2M (2,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- men
Southwestern Mande language of Sierra Leone, written in its own Kikakui script in the 20th century.
Lineage
- Proto-Niger-Congoc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
- Proto-Mandec. 5,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
- Mendec. 1000 CE – today
Sister languages 3
Also descended from Proto-Mande.