<P> Sierra Leone is a multilingual country . English is the de facto official language, and Krio is the most widely spoken and is spoken in different countries . </P> <P> Other major languages include Mende, which is spoken by 37% of the population as a mother tongue and as a lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone, and Temne, which is spoken by 29.7% as a mother tongue and also as a lingua franca in northern Sierra Leone and some part of the Capital and the Western Area . Other languages include Kono, Kissi, Kuranko, Limba, Fula (Pular) and Susu . </P>

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