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Latest comment: 11 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
is the final E in the name of the country pronounced or silent? Is the official pronunciation any different from what most English speakers would expect? Humphrey Tribble (talk) 06:59, 11 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Verdict: False. Bengali/Bangla, spoken in Bangladesh, has never been declared Sierra Leone’s official language. It is neither recognised nor spoken anywhere in the country, as claimed by the referenced media organisations. I found on some websites. Rabindra iop (talk) 17:14, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
FWIW: once again, an IP editor has tried to add Bengali as an offical language of Sierra Leone in the infobox, citing the web site of the embassy of Sierra Leone[1] as "an official Sierra Leone government source". As already has been observed by User:Worldbruce in Talk:Sierra_Leone/Archive_1#Bangla_language, the embassy page is an unattributed word-for-word copy of the Wikipedia article from 2010 (Special:Permalink/358833575, complete with the outdated population estimate of 6.4 million), thus not reliable as an instance of WP:CIRCULAR referencing. Obviously, the Information Attaché did a lazy plagiarism job. –Austronesier (talk) 20:27, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I’m from Sierra Leone, and I am Arabian. I am Muslim, and I speak Arabic. I’m sure some other people from Sierra Leone are Arab too, why is it not considered Arab? 76.214.106.131 (talk) 04:27, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 19 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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