Mande · ISO 639-3 sus
Susu Language Sosoxui
Susu is a Mande language spoken by about 2.4 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Susu is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Susu
Language family
- Mande
- Western Mande
- Manding-Kpelle
- Central Mande
- Susu-Yalunka
- Susu
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Susu language
Susu (Sosoxui) is spoken by about 2.4 million people, which makes it the 286th most spoken language in the world — just behind Slovenian (2.4 million) and ahead of Waddar (2.4 million). It belongs to the Mande language family and, more precisely, to the Susu-Yalunka group within the Manding-Kpelle branch.
Where is Susu spoken?
Susu is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Guinea (3.4 million) and Sierra Leone (273,631).
Share of the population that speaks Susu: Guinea 24% (3.4 million) and Sierra Leone 3% (273,631).
Susu is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Susu is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Bambara, Eastern Maninkakan, Sankaran Maninka, Dyula, Mandinka, Western Maninkakan and 1 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sus.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.