Bambara

E28452
Mande language language lingua franca

Bambara is a major Mande language widely spoken in Mali and neighboring West African countries, serving as a key lingua franca in the region.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Bambara canonical 32
Bambara language 6
Bamana 2

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande language ⓘ
language ⓘ
lingua franca ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Bambara ⓘ
surface form: Bamana

Bamanankan ⓘ
approximateSpeakers more than 10 million ⓘ
branchOf Mande languages ⓘ
surface form: Manding languages
closelyRelatedTo Dioula ⓘ
Mandinka ⓘ
Mandinka ⓘ
surface form: Maninka
hasDialects Beledugu dialect ⓘ
Kaarta dialect ⓘ
Segou dialect ⓘ
hasEthnologueCode bam ⓘ
hasGlottocode bamb1269 ⓘ
hasISO639-1Code bm ⓘ
hasISO639-2Code bam ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code bam ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
subject–object–verb word order ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ
two-tone system ⓘ
hasNativeName Bamana kan ⓘ
Bamanankan ⓘ
hasStandardForm urban Bamako variety ⓘ
influencedBy Arabic ⓘ
French ⓘ
isMacrolanguage false ⓘ
isOfficialLanguageOf Mali ⓘ
languageFamily Mande ⓘ
nativeSpeakers several million ⓘ
primaryRegion West Africa ⓘ
regulatingBody Direction Nationale des Langues Nationales du Mali ⓘ
role lingua franca in Mali ⓘ
secondLanguageSpeakers several million ⓘ
spokenIn Burkina Faso ⓘ
Côte d'Ivoire ⓘ
surface form: Côte d’Ivoire

The Gambia ⓘ
surface form: Gambia

Guinea ⓘ
Mali ⓘ
Mauritania ⓘ
Senegal ⓘ
statusInMali national language ⓘ
subclassOf Western Mande language ⓘ
usedIn literature in Mali ⓘ
popular music in Mali ⓘ
radio broadcasting in Mali ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
N'Ko script ⓘ
surface form: N’Ko script

Referenced by (42)

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

West African languages → includesLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages → includesLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Mandinka → closelyRelatedTo → Bambara ⓘ
Mandinka → closelyRelatedTo → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dioula
Bambara → alsoKnownAs → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bamana
Songhay languages → neighboringLanguages → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bambara language
Mali → ethnicGroup → Bambara ⓘ
Atlantic–Congo languages → includesLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Mande languages → hasMajorLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Mali Empire → ethnicGroup → Bambara ⓘ
Bamako → languageInUse → Bambara ⓘ
VOA Africa → languageOfBroadcast → Bambara ⓘ
Humburi Senni language → hasLoanwordsFrom → Bambara ⓘ
Bamanankan → subclassOf → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bambara language
Bamanankan → hasAlternativeName → Bambara ⓘ
Direction Nationale des Langues Nationales du Mali → worksOnLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Direction Nationale des Langues Nationales du Mali → usesLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Mopti → languageUsed → Bambara ⓘ
N'Ko script → usedForLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Dioula → closelyRelatedTo → Bambara ⓘ
Kayes → languageSpoken → Bambara ⓘ
Koutiala → languageSpoken → Bambara ⓘ
Koutiala → nationalLanguageUsed → Bambara ⓘ
Dogon → neighboringEthnicGroup → Bambara ⓘ
Malian National Guard → hasLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
Alhaji Kromah → languageSpoken → Bambara ⓘ
subject surface form: Alhaji G.V. Kromah
this entity surface form: Mandingo
Ségou → ethnicGroupPresent → Bambara ⓘ
Koulikoro → primaryLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
subject surface form: Koulikoro Region
Dogon languages → areInfluencedBy → Bambara ⓘ
West Africans → speaksLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bambara language
Bani River → languageOfName → Bambara ⓘ
Jula → closelyRelatedTo → Bambara ⓘ
Mandinka language → closelyRelatedTo → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bambara language
Jenne → hasLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bambara language
Djenne → languageSpoken → Bambara ⓘ
subject surface form: Djenné
southwestern Mali → dominantLanguage → Bambara ⓘ
subject surface form: Southwestern Mali
Maninka → isCloselyRelatedTo → Bambara ⓘ
Maninka → isMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Bambara ⓘ
Bambara people → languageSpoken → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bambara language
Bambara people → ethnonymVariant → Bambara ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bamana
Mopti Region → language → Bambara ⓘ
FAMa → languageOfOperation → Bambara ⓘ