Maninka (language)
| Maninka (Maninka, Maninkakan, Malinke, Malinka) | ||
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Spoken in |
Guinea , Mali , Liberia , Senegal , Sierra Leone , Ivory Coast | |
| speaker | approx. 3.3 million | |
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| Official status | ||
| Other official status in |
 Guinea Mali
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| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Senegal
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 | ||
Maninka is the term for closely related dialects and languages of the southeast subgroup of the Mande languages , which belong to the Niger-Congo family of languages . It is the mother tongue of the Malinke people and is spoken by approximately 3,300,000 people in Guinea and Mali , where the related Bambara is a national language , and also in parts of Liberia , Senegal , Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast , where the language is however has no official status.
The following ethnic distinctions can be made:
- East Maninka , also Malinke or Maninka , is spoken by 1,890,000 speakers in Guinea and around 200,000 in Liberia and Sierra Leone;
- Maninka et al. Konyanka have 128,000 speakers in Guinea;
- Maninka et al. Sankaran , also called Faranah, is spoken in Guinea;
- Waldmaninka , part of the Maninka-Mori group together with Wojenaka, Worodougou, Koro, Koyaga and Mahou, has 15,000 speakers in Ivory Coast .
annotation
The Maninka is not to be confused with the related Mandinka .
literature
- Marianne Friedländer: Malinke's textbook . Langenscheidt u. Publishing house Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1992.
Web links
- Tim Tillinghast, Matthias Liebrecht: Report of a Linguistic Survey on the Malinké of Western Mali and Senegal ...
- Manding West (language family tree). Ethnologue, Languages of the World
- Maninka (Kankan). Language Encyclopedia (text sample in Arabic script)