Southwestern Mande languages

Southwestern Mande
Geographic
distribution
Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • Southwestern Mande
Subdivisions
  • Kpelle
  • Loma-Mende
Language codes
Glottologsout2842

The Southwestern Mande languages are a branch of the Mande languages spoken in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. There are around 2.8 million total speakers. The largest languages by far are Mende of Sierra Leone, with 1.4 million, and Kpelle of Liberia and Guinea, with 1.2 million.