Manjaku language

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The Manjaku language is an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo family spoken primarily by the Manjaku people in Guinea-Bissau and neighboring West African countries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Atlantic language
Niger-Congo language
natural language
alternateName Mandyak NERFINISHED
Mandyako NERFINISHED
Manjaco NERFINISHED
belongsToMacroFamily Niger-Congo NERFINISHED
continent Africa
ethnicGroup Manjaku people NERFINISHED
family Niger-Congo NERFINISHED
hasContactWith Creole Portuguese of Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
Portuguese language NERFINISHED
hasDialects several local varieties in Guinea-Bissau
hasISO639-3Code mfv
hasMorphologyFeature noun class system
hasPhonologyFeature contrastive tone
hasSpeakers tens of thousands
hasTypology mostly SVO word order
isSpokenBy Manjaku ethnic group NERFINISHED
languageBranch Atlantic branch
languageFamily Niger-Congo language family NERFINISHED
languageGroup Bak languages
neighboringLanguages Balanta language NERFINISHED
Mandinka language NERFINISHED
Papel language NERFINISHED
primaryCountry Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
region West Africa
spokenIn Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
Senegal NERFINISHED
The Gambia NERFINISHED
West Africa NERFINISHED
status minority language
subfamily Atlantic
usedBy Manjaku communities in urban areas of Guinea-Bissau
usedIn traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Jola closelyRelatedTo Manjaku language
subject surface form: Jola language
Papel closelyRelatedTo Manjaku language
subject surface form: Papel language