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Krio

English-based creole language spoken in Sierra Leone
Intangible natural_language Q35744
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Summary

Krio is a natural language[1]. Krio draws 4,721 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #154 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Sierra Leone[3]
  • Instance of: creole[4], modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: West African English Creole[6]
  • Writing system: Latin script[7]
  • Commons category: Krio language[8]
  • Wikimedia language code: kri[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Krio language[10]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 692,000[11]
  • Native label: Krio[12]
  • Different from: Sierra Leone Creole people[13]
  • Indigenous to: Western Area[14]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KRI[15], https://apics-online.info/contributions/15[16], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133112438[17]
  • Ethnologue language status: 3 Wider Communication[18]

Why It Matters

Krio has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Krio is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Freetown Sierra Leone

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Sierra Leone
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Western Area
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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