Maninka

Maninka

Infobox Language
name=Maninka
nativename=Maninka, Maninkakan, Malinke, Malinka
states=Guinea, Mali, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire
nation=Guinea, Mali
speakers=3,300,000
familycolor=Niger-Congo
fam2=Mande
fam3=Western Mande
fam4=Manding
iso2=man
lc1=myg|ld1=Maninka, Forest
lc2=mku|ld2=Maninka, Konyanka
lc3=emk|ld3=Maninkaka, Eastern
lc4=mzj|ld4=Manya|ll4=Manya language
script=N'Ko, Latin

Maninka is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo languages. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké people and is spoken by 3,300,000 speakers in Guinea and Mali, where the closely related Bambara is a national language, and also in Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire, where it has no official status. The Ethnologue lists the following varieties, but notes that the distinctions between them are largely uncertain:
*Eastern Maninkakan, also called "Malinke" or "Maninka", spoken by 1,890,000 speakers in Guinea and c.200,000 in Liberia and Sierra Leone;
*Maninka, Konyanka, spoken by 128,000 speakers in Guinea;
*Maninka, Sankaran, also called "Faranah", spoken in Guinea;
*Forest Maninka, a part of the Maninka-Mori group together with "Wojenaka, Worodougou, Koro, Koyaga," and "Mahou", spoken by 15,000 speakers in Côte d'Ivoire.

External links

* [http://www.sil.org/silesr/1999/006/ Report on Malinke in Mali en Senegal]
* [http://www.unizh.ch/spw/afrling/afrosympo/abstracts/Vydrine.htm Nko script and a literary Maninka language by Valentin Vydrine]
* [http://www.language-museum.com/m/maninka.htm Some text from the language Museum]
* [http://www.language-museum.com/m/maninka-kankan.htm Language museum in kankan]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91249 Ethnologue report]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8919/yquiche.htm Malinke-Bambara Loan Words in the Mayan Languages]


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