Kita Maninka language

Kita Maninkakan
Central Malinke
Native to	Mali
Ethnicity	Mandinka
Native speakers	(600,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Niger–Congo ? Mande Western Mande ... Manding West Manding Kita Maninkakan
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Mali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: mwk – Kita Maninka xkg – Kagoro

Kita Maninkakan, or Central Malinke, is a Manding language spoken by close to a million people in Mali, where it is a national language.. About 10% are ethnically Fula.

The Kagoro variety is 86% lexically similar according to Ethnologue, and is being replaced by Bambara.

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