KʌThemnɛ

Definitions

Synonym of Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne.

Examples

“KʌThemnɛ is the major language spoken in Northern Sierra Leone, by well over a million first language speakers.”

“But Kʌ-Themnɛ uses the sentence, i yi rǝ kǝ der “I am in the process⟳ of/on my way, coming’ to talk⟳ about the event as it happens at the same time the speaker is uttering the sentence. Because KʌThemnɛ employs two different expressions to talk⟳ about these two different events in time, native speakers of KʌThemnɛ find⟳ the Krio sentence, a de kam inadequate to serve⟳ the purpose of i yi rǝ kǝ der.”

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