Talk:Sierra Leone

Pronunciation
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)


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

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

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 as "an official Sierra Leone government source". As already has been observed by User:Worldbruce in Talk:Sierra_Leone/Archive_1, 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an unattributed word-for-word copy of the Wikipedia article from 2010 (Special:Permalink/358833575, complete with the outdated population estimate of 6.4 million), thus not reliable as an instance of WP:CIRCULAR referencing.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)

Sierra Leone is not Arab?
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)