KʌThemnɛ

alternative Kȧthemnɛ

1. Synonym of Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne.

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

   2007, Sheikh Umarr Kamarah, A Descriptive Grammar of KʌThemnɛ (Temne), LINCOM, page 1

   1 more example

   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.

   2011 November 26, Sheik Umarr Kamarah, ““A de pan kam”: Language “corruption” or “enrichment”?”, in The Patriotic Vanguard

   Synonyms: Temne, Mel language spoken by the Temne