Krio is the lingua franca and the de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Krio is spoken by 98% of Sierra Leone's population and unites all the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and social interaction with each other. The Krio is the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans both at home and abroad. The language is native to the Sierra Leone Creole people ...
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Krio is the lingua franca and the de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Krio is spoken by 98% of Sierra Leone's population and unites all the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and social interaction with each other. The Krio is the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans both at home and abroad. The language is native to the Sierra Leone Creole people or Krios, (a community of about 300,000 descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, United States and Britain), but it is spoken as a second language by millions of other Sierra Leoneans belonging to the country's indigenous tribes. English is Sierra Leone's official language while Krio, despite its common use throughout the country, has no official status.
The Krio language is an offshoot of the language brought by the Nova Scotians from North America and the numerous liberated Yoruba slaves who settled in Sierra Leone. The vocabulary...
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