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KʌThemnɛ
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English
Alternative forms
en Kȧthemnɛ
Etymology
en tem KʌThemnɛ.
Proper noun
en Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne.
en Sheikh Umarr Kamarah A Descriptive Grammar of KʌThemnɛ (Temne) LINCOM 2007 1 KʌThemnɛ is the major language spoken in Northern Sierra Leone, by well over a million first language speakers.
en Sheik Umarr Kamarah “A de pan kam”: Language “corruption” or “enrichment”? The Patriotic Vanguard 2011-11-26 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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