Maninka

E349406
Mande language language

Maninka is a Mande language of West Africa, closely related to Mandinka and Bambara, and widely used as a lingua franca in Guinea and neighboring regions.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Maninka canonical 11
Kankan Maninka 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande language ⓘ
language ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Eastern Maninkakan ⓘ
Mandinka ⓘ
surface form: Guinean Maninka

Mande ⓘ
surface form: Malinké

Maninkakan ⓘ
hasAssociatedScript N’Ko ⓘ
hasDialects Eastern Maninka ⓘ
Kankan dialect ⓘ
Kita Maninka ⓘ
Mandinka ⓘ
surface form: Western Maninka
hasEthnicGroup Mandinka people ⓘ
surface form: Malinké people

Maninka people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGlottocode easternmali1241 ⓘ
hasHistoricalDevelopment developed within the Manding branch of Mande languages ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code emk ⓘ
hasLanguageBranch Western Mande ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily Mande ⓘ
hasLanguageStatus major national language of Guinea ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology SOV basic word order ⓘ
hasMajorRegion Guéckédou region of Guinea ⓘ
Kankan Region (Guinea) ⓘ
surface form: Kankan region of Guinea

Upper Guinea region of Guinea ⓘ
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language ⓘ
hasNumberOfTones 2 ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature tone language ⓘ
hasStandardVariety Guinean Standard Maninka ⓘ
Maninka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Kankan Maninka
hasUsageDomain interethnic communication ⓘ
music ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
trade ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

N'Ko script ⓘ
surface form: N’Ko script
isCloselyRelatedTo Bambara ⓘ
Mandinka ⓘ
isLinguaFrancaIn Guinea ⓘ
border areas of Sierra Leone ⓘ
parts of southern Mali ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Bambara ⓘ
Mandinka ⓘ
isSpokenIn Côte d'Ivoire ⓘ
surface form: Côte d’Ivoire

Guinea ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
Liberia ⓘ
Mali ⓘ
Senegal ⓘ
Sierra Leone ⓘ
subclassOf Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
surface form: Niger–Congo language

Western Mande language ⓘ

Referenced by (12)

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

Conakry → languageWidelySpoken → Maninka ⓘ
Guineans → language → Maninka ⓘ
Mande → hasLanguage → Maninka ⓘ
Dioula → closelyRelatedTo → Maninka ⓘ
Upper Guinea → spokenLanguage → Maninka ⓘ
Jula → closelyRelatedTo → Maninka ⓘ
Kpelle → hasNeighboringLanguages → Maninka ⓘ
Loma → neighboringLanguages → Maninka ⓘ
Toma → neighboringLanguage → Maninka ⓘ
Kaloum → languageUsed → Maninka ⓘ
Matam → languageUsed → Maninka ⓘ
Maninka → hasStandardVariety → Maninka self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kankan Maninka