I'm gullah from Beaufort South Carolina and I took my African ancestry test and I'm really sure it will go back to Sierra leone. The lady looks my my great great grandmother who gave me my mitochondrial dna
From new york all my family from grandfather(moms side) comes from gullah area in charleston county sc(mt pleasant near sullivan island)..dna came back mainly nigerian but mende salone was 2nd
Early on in the slave trade European traders actually had a preference for slaves from the Upper Guinea Coast (the region that now includes Sierra Leone). The spaniards called them _escravos de ley_ or "Slaves of the Law".
haha...I understood EVERYTHING she was saying....lol! My first boyfriend is from sierra leone...I was with him for six years..I now have an ear for mende and pidgen english...it's so funny cause I felt proud to understand her!! ;-)
My DNA links me to the Mende people. My family is from South Carolina, rice eaters they call us. I Was listening to the rhythm of her speech to see if it sounds familiar. Although I don't understand her words, the syntax is familiar to me. What I thought was a Southern accent is really a West African one.
this is a big problem as society changes. Many don't speak it but can hear it...which means their children will not speak or hear it cause the parent can't speak it to the children. I have said...what's the difference between a third generation African born in the states and a descendant of slaevery....my answer is...not much as far as culture is concerned. Once it's lost, it's lost. Try and stop that from happening in your line...
destiny mitchell my brother did for my mom on mothers day and came back mende from sierra leon hints why i am lookinh at the video but charelston area (more specifically huger, sc) has always had my heart although my grandparents are no longer with us I just loved being there and feel so at home when i am there. Explains so much
@destinyMitchell My family is Gullah, Horry County. and I did an African Ancestry test and I am Mende. You should defiantly do it. it is a good feeling to know.
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My God, I would love t learn how to speak Mende after my DNA test results show that I share common ancestry with the Mende people of Sierra - Leone and the Balanta people of Guinea - Bissau.
She possibly speaks English too. Most Sierra Leoneans can speak at least three languages, their native ethnic language (Mende, Temne, Fula, Susu, etc..), Krio, and English. My mother speaks three conversationally and a fourth to a lesser extent. She used to speak a fifth when she was a child but she lost it
Temne and Mende sounds completely different to me. Maybe a words sound alike but the pattern is different. I don't speak either one. I only speak Louisiana English. But the Temne sound has more of the ng sound in it. And Mende has more syllables.
The hospitality with the Mende people can never be compared to any tribe in Sierra Leone they're unique well educated and women with curvy shapes I hope to visit there always.
stilletos25 this is my grandma's language, she doesn't speak as well though but here's it, my mom speaks and here's a bit but I can't do any of that I only understand temne
@@akindele13 Related but indirectly, they are still not the same at all. They are just in the same large linguistic group. I think people got confused because the linguistics called this linguistic group "mande". Arab, hebrew and some other people from Ethiopia,, etc share the same semitic family group, they are still not the same people, their old relation go far beyond the same apply to mende and mandinja/mandingo/malinke peoples.
