Mandjak (language)
| Mandjak | ||
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Spoken in |
Guinea-Bissau , Senegal , Gambia ( West Africa ) | |
| speaker | 315,300 (2006) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Official status | ||
| Other official status in |
 Senegal
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
mfv |
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Mandjak ( Portuguese Maniaca , French Manjaque ) is a West Atlantic language that is spoken in Guinea-Bissau , but also in Gambia , Senegal and France .
Since its written language was codified in Senegal in 2002, it has had a status there as a national language . Other names for the language are Mandjaque, Manjaca, Manjaco, Manjiak, Mandyak, Manjaku, Manjack, Ndyak, Mendyako, Kanyop, and Manjak.
speaker
In 2006 , the total number of speakers was estimated at 315,300, including 184,000 in Guinea-Bissau, 105,000 in Senegal and 26,300 in Gambia.
literature
- Joseph H. Greenberg, "Polyglotta evidence for consonant mutation in the Mandyak languages", African Languages review , n ° 5, 1966, p. 106-110
- P. Buis, Essai sur la langue manjako de la zone Bassarel , Bissau, LNEP, 1990
- RP Jean Léonce Doneux, “Le Manjaku, classes nominales et questions sur l'alternance consonantique”, in La classification nominale dans les langues négro-agricaines, Aix-en-Provence, June 3-7, 1967 , Paris, CNRS, 1967, p . 261-276
- RP Jean Léonce Doneux, “La langue manjaque et l'alternance consonantique initiale”, African Languages Review , vol. 8, 1969, p. 193-211
- RP Jean Léonce Doneux, Lexique manjaku , Dakar, CLAD, 1975b.
- Carfa Mendès, 2007, Parlons manjak: langue de Guinée-Bissau , L'Harmattan, ISBN 2-296-04645-2 .
- A. Carreira et J. Basso Marques, Subsídios para o estudo da língua Maniaca , Lisbonne, 1947