Xaasongaxango
| Xaasongaxango | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Mali | |
| speaker | 128,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo |
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| Official status | ||
| Other official status in |
 Mali
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
kao |
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Xaasongaxango is a Manding West language spoken as a mother tongue by the Khassonké on the border between Mali and Senegal .
It has around 128,000 to 170,000 speakers in all countries and is a national language of Mali . Xaasongaxango is very closely related to Malinke and Mandinka . Alternative names for the language are Xasonga , Kassonke , Khassonka , Khassonké , Khasonke , Kasonke , Kasson , Kasso , Xaasonga , Xasonke, and Xassonke .
See also
literature
- Koite-Herschel, Ute. 1981. La translation du constituent verbal: le cas du xasonga. Mandenkan 2 (Automne 1981): 3-16.
- Sullivan, Terrence D. 2004. "A preliminary report of existing information on the Manding languages of West Africa: summary and suggestions for future research." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-005: 34 p. http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-005