. "men" . "Mende"@en . . . . . "Mende /\u02C8m\u025Bndi/ (M\u025Bnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia. It is spoken by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone.Mende is a tonal language belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger\u2013Congo language family. Early systematic descriptions of Mende were by F. W. Migeod and Kenneth Crosby."@en . . "men" . . . "50px|M\u025Bnde yia"@en .