Mandinka people

E70582
Mande people ethnic group

The Mandinka people are a major Mande-speaking ethnic group of West Africa known for their rich oral traditions, Islamic scholarship, and historical role in the Mali Empire.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Mandinka people canonical 11
Malinké people 3
Mandingo people 3

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mande people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
country Burkina Faso ⓘ
Guinea ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
Côte d'Ivoire ⓘ
surface form: Ivory Coast

Liberia ⓘ
Mali ⓘ
Mauritania ⓘ
Senegal ⓘ
Sierra Leone ⓘ
The Gambia ⓘ
culturalInstrument balafon ⓘ
kora ⓘ
ngoni ⓘ
culturalPractice griot storytelling ⓘ
kora music ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
demographicStatus one of the largest ethnic groups in Guinea ⓘ
one of the largest ethnic groups in Mali ⓘ
one of the largest ethnic groups in The Gambia ⓘ
ethnonym Mande ⓘ
surface form: Malinke

Mandinka people self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Mandingo
historicalAssociation Mali Empire ⓘ
historicalRole founders of Mali Empire ⓘ
language Mandinka language ⓘ
languageFamily Mande languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
mainCrops groundnuts ⓘ
millet ⓘ
sorghum ⓘ
majorityEthnicGroupIn The Gambia ⓘ
partOf Mande ⓘ
surface form: Mande peoples
primaryReligion Islam ⓘ
region West Africa ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroup Bambara people ⓘ
Dyula people ⓘ
Soninke people ⓘ
religiousScholarship Islamic scholarship ⓘ
religiousTradition Sufism ⓘ
Sunni Islam ⓘ
subsistence rain-fed agriculture ⓘ
traditionalHousing compounds with round huts ⓘ
traditionalLaw customary law ⓘ
traditionalOccupation agriculture ⓘ
griot performance ⓘ
trading ⓘ
traditionalReligion African traditional religion ⓘ
traditionalSocialStructure caste system ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (20)

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

West Africa → hasEthnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
Mandinka → ethnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
Mandinka → hasAlternativeName → Mandinka people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mandingo
Afro-Cubans → ethnicOrigin → Mandinka people ⓘ
Mandinka people → ethnonym → Mandinka people self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mandingo
Guineans → ethnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
Casamance → hasEthnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
Sekou Conneh → ethnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mandingo people
Lofa County → ethnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mandingo people
Alhaji Kromah → ethnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
subject surface form: Alhaji G.V. Kromah
this entity surface form: Mandingo people
West Africans → hasSubgroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
balafon → usedBy → Mandinka people ⓘ
Mandinka language → ethnicLanguageOf → Mandinka people ⓘ
Dyula people → areRelatedTo → Mandinka people ⓘ
Dyula people → areRelatedTo → Mandinka people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malinké people
Saloum → hasEthnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
southwestern Mali → hasEthnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
subject surface form: Southwestern Mali
this entity surface form: Malinké people
Soninke people → relatedEthnicGroups → Mandinka people ⓘ
Maninka → hasEthnicGroup → Mandinka people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malinké people
Bambara people → ethnonymVariant → Mandinka people ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bamana people