Mandinka language

E351830

Mande language Niger–Congo language language

The Mandinka language is a Mande language of West Africa widely spoken in countries such as Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, and serves as a major lingua franca of the Mandinka people.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Mandinka language canonical	8
Maninka language	3

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mande language ⓘ Niger–Congo language ⓘ language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Bambara ⓘ surface form: Bambara language Dioula ⓘ surface form: Dioula language Mandinka language self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Maninka language
ethnicLanguageOf	Mandinka people ⓘ
glottocode	mand1436 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Malinke (in some classifications) ⓘ Mandingo ⓘ Mandinka ⓘ surface form: Mandinko
hasApproximateSpeakers	1600000 ⓘ
hasDialects	Bamako Mandinka ⓘ Casamance Mandinka ⓘ Mandinka ⓘ surface form: Kaabu Mandinka Mandinka ⓘ surface form: Kita Mandinka
hasLinguisticTypology	agglutinative language ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	postpositions ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	ATR vowel harmony ⓘ tone language ⓘ
hasStandardForm	Casamance Mandinka ⓘ surface form: Gambian Mandinka
hasWritingSystem	Arabic script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script N'Ko script ⓘ
ISO639-1Code	None ⓘ
ISO639-2Code	mnk ⓘ
isRecognizedAs	national language in Gambia ⓘ national language in Senegal ⓘ
isTaughtIn	schools in Gambia ⓘ
languageBranch	Western Mande ⓘ
languageFamily	Mande languages ⓘ
majorityLanguageIn	rural Gambia ⓘ
primaryCountry	The Gambia ⓘ surface form: Gambia
region	West Africa ⓘ
spokenIn	Burkina Faso ⓘ Chad ⓘ The Gambia ⓘ surface form: Gambia Guinea ⓘ Guinea-Bissau ⓘ Côte d'Ivoire ⓘ surface form: Ivory Coast Mali ⓘ Mauritania ⓘ Senegal ⓘ Sierra Leone ⓘ
subclassOf	Western Mande language ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca ⓘ
usedIn	griot storytelling ⓘ oral tradition of Mandinka people ⓘ
usesWordOrder	SOV ⓘ
writingDirection	left-to-right ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

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

Mandinka people → language → Mandinka language ⓘ

Casamance → hasLanguage → Mandinka language ⓘ

Bamanankan → closelyRelatedTo → Mandinka language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maninka language

Mandika → speaks → Mandinka language ⓘ

subject surface form: Mandinka

Ajami script → usedFor → Mandinka language ⓘ

West Africans → speaksLanguage → Mandinka language ⓘ

Ajami → usedToWriteLanguage → Mandinka language ⓘ

Senegambia → includesLanguage → Mandinka language ⓘ

Mandinka language → closelyRelatedTo → Mandinka language self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maninka language

Kankan (historically) → languageUsed → Mandinka language ⓘ

subject surface form: Kankan

this entity surface form: Maninka language

Serahule Muslims → usesLanguage → Mandinka language ⓘ