Country Info

Sierra Leone Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 2,668,665 people (43% of Sierra Leone) that can read or write at least one language.

6 Writing Systems used in Sierra Leone

Krio (Latin)

kri-latn
language code
5,855,040
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
2,157,120
people

Mende (Latin)

men-latn
language code
1,664,064
people

Timne (Latin)

tem-latn
language code
1,602,432
people

Fulah (Latin)

ff-latn
language code
0
people

Fulah (Adlam)

ff-adlm
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR