The Manding languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are a dialect continuum within the Niger-Congo family spoken in West Africa. Varieties of Manding are generally...
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Mand, or Atemble, is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Atemble village (5°05′32″S 144°46′29″E / 5.092351°S 144...
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Look up Manding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Manding may refer to: Manding languages, a language-dialect continuum in West Africa Mandinka (disambiguation)...
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the Gambia. Manding is part of the larger Mandé family of languages. Bambara is spoken throughout Mali as a lingua franca. The language is most widely...
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Manding may be: One of the Manding languages Specifically the Mandinka language Manding (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Mand is a term that B.F. Skinner used to describe a verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore...
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Senegal, and The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages. Mandinka belongs to the Manding branch of Mande and is similar to Bambara and Maninka/Malinké...
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the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family (itself, possibly linked to...
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N'Ko script (redirect from N'Ko language and script)
system for the Manding languages of West Africa. The term NKo, which means I say in all Manding languages, is also used for the Manding literary standard...
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West (Manding–Kpelle) Central Mande Susu–Yalunka Manding–Jɔgɔ Jogo languages Manding–Vai Vai–Kono Manding–Mokole Manding languages Mokole languages Southwest...
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language. Musi, also known as Palembang Malay, spoken in South Sumatra. N'Ko, which is both a script and an emerging literary version of the Manding languages...
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the Manding languages and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West...
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13th to 14th centuries Classical Manding, language of the Mali Empire, 13th to 16th centuries Old Ruthenian, one language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
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N'Ko (ߒߞߏ) is a standardized unified koiné form of several Manding languages written in the N'Ko alphabet. It is used in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali,...
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Burkina Faso. The name "Jula" is actually a Manding word meaning "trader.") Other Mande languages (not in the Manding group) include Soninke (in the region...
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Solomana Kante (category Articles containing N'Ko-language text)
alphabet for the Manding language varieties of Africa. Kanté created N'Ko, a modern script for, as he saw it, the Manding language in 1949 after five...
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Maninkakan, or Central Malinke, is a Manding language spoken by about a million people in Mali, where it is a national language. About 10% are ethnically Fula...
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Marka, also called Dafing, is a Manding language of West Africa, spoken in northwest Burkina Faso. Marka at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e...
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system for the Mande languages of West Africa. It blends the principal elements of the partially mutually intelligible Manding languages. The movement promoting...
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Kora (instrument) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
The kora (Manding languages: ߞߐߙߊ kɔra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by...
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refer to: N'Ko script, for writing Manding NKo (Unicode block) N'Ko language, a stardardization of the Manding languages in West Africa This disambiguation...
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The Kassonke (Khassonké) language, Xaasongaxango (Xasonga), or Western Maninka (Malinke), is a Manding language spoken by the Khassonké and Malinke of...
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Bolon is a Manding language of Burkina Faso. There are two dialects, White/Southern and Black/Northern; White Bolon is partially intelligible with Jula...
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Epic of Sundiata (category Epic poems in Manding languages)
Sunjata (/sʊnˈdʒɑːtə/; Manding languages: ߛߏ߲߬ߖߘߊ߬ Sònjàdà, also referred to as Sundiata or Son-Jara; Arabic: ملحمة سوندياتا; French: L'épopée de Soundjata)...
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Mahou (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
publisher Mahou, Mali, a commune and village Mahou language, a variety of Maninka, a group of Manding languages Mahou-San Miguel Group, a Spanish brewery This...
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Mandinka people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
largest ethnolinguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the Mande language family, which are a lingua franca in much of West Africa...
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Mand or Maand (Hindi: मांड गायकी) is a style of singing in Rajasthan, used in folk songs. It is similar to the thumri and the ghazal. Well known Mand...
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Bambara (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
Bambara people, an ethnic group, primarily in Mali Bambara language, their language, a Manding language Bamana Empire, a state that flourished in present-day...
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Maraka) people are a Mande people of northwest Mali. They speak Marka, a Manding language. Some of the Maraka (Dafin people are found in Ghana. The Marka originated...
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Hausa, Manding, Fulani and Yoruba, which are spoken as a second (or non-first) language by millions of people. Although many African languages are used...
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