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A Mandinka speaker, recorded in Taiwan. The Mandinka language ( Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages. Mandinka belongs ...
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The Mandinka or Malinke [note 1] are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, the Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. [19] Numbering about 11 million, [20] [21] they are the largest subgroup of the Mandé peoples and one of the largest ethnic-linguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the ...
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mand1469. The Mande languages ( Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people, [1 ...
- West Africa
- Western Mande, Eastern Mande
- Proto-Mande
- Niger–Congo?Mande
Mandinka is a Mande language with about 1.3 million speakers (in 2006) in Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and Chad. It is the main language of The Gambia, and is recognised as a minority language in Senegal. Mandinka is also known as Mandingo. There are versions of the Latin and ...
The Mandinka language ( Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages. Quick Facts Native to, Region ...
Based on recent statistics, the Mandinka population is nearly two million. In July 2001, there were 592,706 Mandinka in Gambia (42 percent of the population), 308,547 in Senegal (3 percent of the population), and 171,056 in Guinea-Bissau (13 percent of the population). There are approximately 800,000 Mandinka in Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali ...
Mandingo/Mandinka. Mandingo - also called Mandinka - is a member of the Manding branch of the Niger-Congo language family of Mande. It is the official language of Senegal, and it is also spoken and is also spoken by Mandinka people in Mali, Gambia, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea-Bissau and Chad.