Manduri
| Baga Manduri | ||
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Spoken in |
Guinea | |
| speaker | 4,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bmd |
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Baga Manduri (ISO 639-3: bmd; also baka, maduri, mandari, mandore, mandori and manduri) is a West Atlantic language spoken by around 4,000 people on the islands in the delta of the Nunez River in Guinea ; it is also spoken by some older people in the community.
It is one of seven Baga languages in the Temne group within the Niger-Congo language family .
Baga Manduri is related to the languages Landoma [ldm] and the Temnian language [tem]; the Baga Manduri themselves mostly speak French and Susu [sus] as a second language.