KʌThemnɛ

English

Alternative forms

  • Kȧthemnɛ

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Temne KʌThemnɛ.

Proper noun

KʌThemnɛ

  1. Synonym of Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne.
    • 2007, Sheikh Umarr Kamarah, A Descriptive Grammar of KʌThemnɛ (Temne), LINCOM, page 1:
      KʌThemnɛ is the major language spoken in Northern Sierra Leone, by well over a million first language speakers.
    • 2011 November 26, Sheik Umarr Kamarah, ““A de pan kam”: Language “corruption” or “enrichment”?”, in The Patriotic Vanguard:
      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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