Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Sussu/Soussou/Sosso/Soso/Susu

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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Guinea Country Office

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Sussu/Soussou/Sosso/Soso/Susu

Language Profile

TOTAL SPEAKERS

923,000 (1993)

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

Home Speakers: Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone

BACKGROUND

It is spoken by nearly 1 million people . It belongs to the Mande branch (Western Sudanic group) of the Niger-Congo family and is written both in Latin and Arabic scripts. In Guinea, people have limited bilingualism in French, in Sierra Leone bilingualism in Krio or English.