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Pronunciation

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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]

The note seems to allow both pronunciations of Leone? Do the people use both? Humphrey Tribble (talk) 21:41, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I do not know anyone inside or outside the country that would pronounce the E. Davidbstanley (talk) 08:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Official Language

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Does the govt of Sierra Leone recognising "Bengali"as official language of their country ? Rabindra iop (talk) 13:19, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Rabindra iop: No. This has been discussed extensively in this talk page's archive and at Talk:Bengali language. --Worldbruce (talk) 13:51, 15 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an unattributed word-for-word copy of the Wikipedia article from 2010 (Special:Permalink/358833575, complete with the outdated population estimate of 6.4 million), thus not reliable as an instance of WP:CIRCULAR referencing.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]

Sierra Leone is not Arab?

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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]

Wiki Education assignment: Environmental Politics

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This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 3 September 2024 and 20 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Bugsandslugs (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Naz2844, Wpuser2727.

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