Mandinka

E28118
Mande language language natural language

Mandinka is a major Mande language spoken primarily in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and neighboring West African countries by the Mandinka people.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Mandinka canonical 32
Maninka 2
Guinean Maninka 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande language ⓘ
language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
associatedReligion Islam (majority of speakers) ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Bambara ⓘ
Bambara ⓘ
surface form: Dioula

Mandinka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Maninka
ethnicGroup Mandinka people ⓘ
glottocode mand1436 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Malinke (in some sources) ⓘ
Mandika ⓘ
Mandinka people ⓘ
surface form: 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 Mande languages ⓘ
surface form: 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 Mande languages ⓘ
surface form: Manding languages
region Senegambia ⓘ
West Africa ⓘ
surface form: Upper Guinea
spokenIn Guinea ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
Côte d'Ivoire ⓘ
surface form: 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 (40)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

West African languages → includesLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
Mandinka → closelyRelatedTo → Mandinka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maninka
Guinea-Bissau Creole → hasEthnicGroup → Mandinka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mandinga
Guinea-Bissau Creole → hasInfluencedByLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
Bambara → closelyRelatedTo → Mandinka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Maninka
Bambara → closelyRelatedTo → Mandinka ⓘ
Cape Verdean Creole → influencedBy → Mandinka ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau → primaryEthnicGroups → Mandinka ⓘ
Senegal → nationalLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
Guinea → hasMajorEthnicGroup → Mandinka ⓘ
Atlantic–Congo languages → includesLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
Mande languages → hasMajorLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
Mali Empire → ethnicGroup → Mandinka ⓘ
Gambian Muslims → language → Mandinka ⓘ
VOA Africa → languageOfBroadcast → Mandinka ⓘ
Casamance Creole → influencedBy → Mandinka ⓘ
Casamance Creole → hasSubstrateInfluenceFrom → Mandinka ⓘ
Mande → hasLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
N'Ko script → usedForLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
Mandika → alternativeNameOf → Mandinka ⓘ
Upper Guinea Creoles → influencedBy → Mandinka ⓘ
Dioula → closelyRelatedTo → Mandinka ⓘ
Sinead O’Connor → composerOf → Mandinka ⓘ
subject surface form: Sinéad O’Connor
Susu → neighboringPeoples → Mandinka ⓘ
Jula → closelyRelatedTo → Mandinka ⓘ
Senegambia → majorEthnicGroups → Mandinka ⓘ
Niani → ethnicAssociation → Mandinka ⓘ
Keita dynasty → ethnicOrigin → Mandinka ⓘ
Sundiata Keita → ethnicGroup → Mandinka ⓘ
Mandinka language → hasDialects → Mandinka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kaabu Mandinka
Mandinka language → hasDialects → Mandinka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kita Mandinka
Mandinka language → hasAlternativeName → Mandinka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mandinko
Kuntaur → hasLanguage → Mandinka ⓘ
Basse Santa Su → languageUsed → Mandinka ⓘ
Kankan (historically) → ethnicMajority → Mandinka ⓘ
subject surface form: Kankan
Maninka → hasAlternativeName → Mandinka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Guinean Maninka
Maninka → isCloselyRelatedTo → Mandinka ⓘ
Maninka → isMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Mandinka ⓘ
Maninka → hasDialects → Mandinka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Western Maninka
Salif Keita → languageOfWorkOrName → Mandinka ⓘ