Maninka language
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| Maninka Maninka, Maninkakan, Malinke |
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| Spoken in: | Guinea, Mali, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire | |
| Total speakers: | 3,300,000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Mande Western Mande Manding Maninka |
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| Writing system: | N'Ko, Latin | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Guinea, Mali | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | man | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: myg — Maninka, Forest mku — Maninka, Konyanka emk — Maninkaka, Eastern mzj — Manya |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Maninka is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo languages. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké people and is spoken by 3,300,000 speakers in Guinea and Mali, where the closely related Bambara is a national language, and also in Liberia, Senegal,Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire, where it has no official status. The Ethnologue lists the following varieties, but notes that the distinctions between them are largely uncertain:
- Eastern Maninkakan, also called Malinke or Maninka, spoken by 1,890,000 speakers in Guinea and c.200,000 in Liberia and Sierra Leone;
- Maninka, Konyanka, spoken by 128,000 speakers in Guinea;
- Maninka, Sankaran, also called Faranah, spoken in Guinea;
- Forest Maninka, a part of the Maninka-Mori group together with Wojenaka, Worodougou, Koro, Koyaga, and Mahou, spoken by 15,000 speakers in Côte d'Ivoire.
[edit] External links
- Nko script and a literary Maninka language by Valentin Vydrine
- Some text from the language Museum
- Language museum in kankan
- Various links on the Maninka
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