Mandinka
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Mandinka is a major Mande language spoken primarily in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and neighboring West African countries by the Mandinka people.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mande language
→
language → natural language → |
| associatedReligion |
Islam (majority of speakers)
→
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bambara
→
Dioula → Maninka → |
| ethnicGroup |
Mandinka people
→
|
| glottocode |
mand1436
→
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Malinke (in some sources)
→
Mandika → Mandingo → |
| hasDialects |
regional varieties in Guinea-Bissau
→
regional varieties in Senegal → regional varieties in The Gambia → |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
no grammatical gender
→
postpositions instead of prepositions → |
| hasLinguisticAncestor |
Proto-Mande
→
|
| hasMorphologicalType |
agglutinative language
→
|
| hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate |
over 1 million speakers
→
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
tone language
→
vowel length contrast → |
| hasStandardizationEffort |
orthography development in The Gambia
→
|
| hasWordOrder |
SOV
→
|
| ISO639-2Code |
mnk
→
|
| ISO639-3Code |
mnk
→
|
| languageBranch |
Mande languages
→
|
| languageFamily |
Niger–Congo languages
→
|
| languageGroup |
Manding languages
→
|
| region |
Senegambia
→
Upper Guinea → |
| spokenIn |
Guinea
→
Guinea-Bissau → Ivory Coast → Mali → Senegal → Sierra Leone → The Gambia → West Africa → |
| subclassOf |
Manding language
→
Western Mande language → |
| usedAs |
lingua franca in The Gambia
→
lingua franca in parts of Senegal → |
| usedIn |
griot storytelling traditions
→
oral literature of Mandinka people → |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
→
Latin script → N'Ko script → |
Referenced by (14)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Bambara
("Maninka")
→
Bambara → Mandinka ("Maninka") → |
closelyRelatedTo |
|
Atlantic–Congo languages
→
West African languages → |
includesLanguage |
|
Mali Empire
→
|
ethnicGroup |
|
Guinea-Bissau Creole
("Mandinga")
→
|
hasEthnicGroup |
|
Guinea-Bissau Creole
→
|
hasInfluencedByLanguage |
|
Guinea
→
|
hasMajorEthnicGroup |
|
Mande languages
→
|
hasMajorLanguage |
|
Cape Verdean Creole
→
|
influencedBy |
|
Gambian Muslims
→
|
language |
|
Senegal
→
|
nationalLanguage |
|
Guinea-Bissau
→
|
primaryEthnicGroups |