Langwej dɛn
Salone de tɔk pas dozin langwej. Na ya fɔ fɛn dɛn dikshɔnari: fri na intanɛt, fɔ borɔ na laybri, ɔ fɔ bay. Di buk dɛn na dɛn ona yon, so wi de sho usay dɛn de, wi nɔ de kip dɛn ya.
Across the whole country: the language most Sierra Leoneans share, whatever they speak at home.
A Krio–English Dictionary
Clifford N. Fyle & Eldred D. Jones
1980
The standard Krio dictionary, some 30,000 words with their meanings and uses. Out of print: the Internet Archive lends a scanned copy, and used copies turn up.
Borɔ ↗Krio Dictionary
Peter C. Andersen, Sierra Leone Web
Online, letter by letter. The quickest way to look a word up.
Opin ↗Krio–English / English–Krio Dictionary & Phrasebook
Hippocrene Books
A small paperback: over 4,000 words both ways, everyday phrases, a short grammar and some proverbs.
Bay ↗Krio on Wiktionary
Wiktionary's volunteers
A few dozen words so far, and anyone can add more.
Opin ↗A Mende–English Dictionary
Gordon Innes
1969
The standard Mende dictionary, from Cambridge University Press. The Internet Archive lends a scanned copy.
Borɔ ↗Vocabulary of the Mende Language
James Frederick Schön
1884
A missionary's word list. Useful for older words; the spelling is not today's.
Rid ↗The Mende Language
F. W. H. Migeod
1908
Phrases, a short grammar and word lists, written by a colonial officer.
Rid ↗An English–Temne Dictionary
Christian Frederick Schlenker
1880
English to Temne, printed for the Church Missionary Society. The oldest large Temne word list; the spelling has changed since.
Rid ↗Temne Traditions, Fables and Proverbs
Christian Frederick Schlenker
1861
Not a dictionary, but stories and proverbs in Temne with English beside them.
Rid ↗A Limba–English Dictionary
Mary Lane Clarke
1922
Reprinted in 1971; the original and the reprint both turn up secondhand.
Rid ↗Polyglotta Africana
Sigismund Koelle
1854
About 280 words in more than a hundred African languages, many of Sierra Leone's among them, written down in Freetown from people freed from slave ships. Now searchable online.
Opin ↗Sierra Leone Heritage glossary
SierraLeoneHeritage.org
Short entries on peoples, languages, societies and customs.
Opin ↗Languages of Sierra Leone on Wiktionary
Wiktionary's volunteers
Whatever words volunteers have added, language by language.
Opin ↗Wi stil de luk
Yu no bɔt wan, ɔ yu ɔ yu famili gɛt wɔd list, ol skul buk ɔ Baybul na dɛn langwej ya? Tɛl wi.
Tɛl wi bɔt wan →Di ol buk dɛn nɔ gɛt kɔpirayt igen, so ɛnibɔdi kin rid dɛn fri. Dɛn spɛlin ol pas di wan we wi de yuz tide, ɛn sɔm tin we dɛn se sho di kɔlonial tɛm we dɛn rayt dɛn. Laybri buk dɛn nid fri akawnt na di Intanɛt Akayv, ɛn sɔm kɔpi na fɔ pipul we nɔ ebul rid print nɔmɔ.