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English status
Used in administration, law, education, commerce. Official language. Bible 1535-1989. |
Languages
English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) |
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Languages of the African Union > Illiteracy > Literacy rate
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29.6
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[170th of 174]
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