Mende

American  

[men-dee] / ˈmɛn di /

noun

PLURAL

Mendes

PLURAL

Mende

1. a member of a people living in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

2. a Niger-Congo language of the Mande branch spoken by the Mende people.

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Example Sentences

English is his third language after Krio and Mende—all of which are spoken in his native Sierra Leone.

From Slate

"On the other, it also enables the cell to meet its need for important building blocks, including in the event of a nutrient deficiency or increased cell proliferation, which is characteristic of cancer cells," explains PhD student Hannah Mende, the study's first author.

From Science Daily

These included: 85 individuals from a West African group called the Mende from Sierra Leone; 44 individuals from the Nama Khoe-San group from southern Africa; 46 individuals from the Amhara and Oromo groups in Ethiopia; and 23 individuals from the Gumuz group, also from Ethiopia.

From Reuters

The researchers analyzed DNA from a range of African groups, including the Mende, farmers who live in Sierra Leone in West Africa; the Gumuz, a group descended from hunter-gatherers in Ethiopia; the Amhara, a group of Ethiopian farmers; and the Nama, a group of hunter-gatherers in South Africa.

From New York Times

The DNA of the Mende people showed that their ancestors had interbred with Stem2 people just 25,000 years ago.

From New York Times