Lunsar is a town in Marampa Chiefdom , Port Loko District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone . It is the largest town in Port Loko District by population. A 2004 estimate placed the population of Lunsar at 36,108. The town is one of the main commercial and business hub in the North of Sierra Leone. Lunsar lies approximately 50 miles east of Freetown and about 18 miles south-east of the district capital of Port Loko . The inhabitants of Lunsar are largely from the Temne ethnic group.
6-470: Its most recent history has been an iron ore mining town. The ore, for the most part, is set in stone which forms a huge mountain, called Massaboin Hill. The word stone in the local Temne language is "Sar," and thus befits the area where the iron ore was found. Thus, the town's initial name was "Ro-Sar" meaning the place where the stones are found. Ro-sar later evolved to Lunsar during the colonial era . Lunsar
12-646: Is a language of the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family . Temne speakers live mostly in the Northern Province and Western Area , Sierra Leone . Temne people can be found in a number of other West African countries as well, including Guinea and The Gambia . Some Temnes have also migrated beyond West Africa seeking educational and professional opportunities, especially in Great Britain , and
18-581: Is the home to Sierra Leone's largest cycling team, the Lunsar Cycling Team. The team has run the Tour de Lunsar, the country's largest cycle race, annually since 2016. In 2019, two riders from the town, Osman T. Kalokoh and Ibrahim Jalloh, represented Sierra Leone on the national cycling team at the Tour de Guinée [ fr ] . In 2022, Fatima Deborah Conteh who raced for Lunsar Cycling Team,
24-462: The United States . Temne is a tonal language . Among consonants, Temne distinguishes dental and alveolar , but, unusually, the dental consonants are apical and the alveolar consonants are laminal (and slightly affricated ), the opposite of the general pattern, though one found also in the nearby language Limba . Temne has two tones: high and low. The alphabet of Temne includes
30-645: The following characters and digraphs: Earlier, Ȧȧ was used instead of Ʌʌ. In 1861, C. F. Schlenker, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society , published a collection of Temne fables and proverbs in Temne with a facing-text English translation. Schlenker's source was a Temne man living in Port Loko in the late 1840s; Schlenker explains that he was an old man already at that time. The book also contains some of Schlenker's translations from
36-429: Was offered a professional cycling contract by Canyon / SRAM Generation , making her the first Sierra Leonean to be given a pro contract. 08°41′N 12°32′W / 8.683°N 12.533°W / 8.683; -12.533 This Sierra Leone location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Temne language Temne (also Themne, Timne ; IPA [t̪emnɛ] )
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