Mansoanka
| Sua (Mansoanka) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Guinea-Bissau | |
| speaker | 17,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
msw |
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The language Mansoanka (ISO 639-3: msw; also kunant, kunante, mansoanca, maswanka, sua ) is a West Atlantic language , which is counted as the only representative of the subgroup Sua to the language group of the South Atlantic languages within the Niger-Congo language family .
The language is spoken by around 15,500 people in Guinea-Bissau (2006) and by some minorities in Gambia . The language has a total of 17,100 speakers. The ethnic group that speaks this language are the Kunante , who form the Senegambian peoples with other peoples in the region.
The languages balanta-kentohe [ble] and mandinka [mnk] are understandable to Mansoanka speakers, which is why the language is also called mandinkanizirani-balanta '.
literature
- Guillaume Serere & Florian Lionnet 2010. "'Isolates' in 'Atlantic'" . Language Isolates in Africa workshop, Lyon, Dec. 4th