Maninka bhasa ek bhasa hae.
Maninka | ||||
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Malinke | ||||
Spoken in | Guinea, Mali, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire | Date founded | 1986 | |
Total speakers | 2.8 million | |||
Language family | Niger–Congo ? | |||
Writing system | N'Ko, Latin | |||
Official status | ||||
Official language in | Guinea, Mali | |||
Regulated by | No official regulation | |||
Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-2 | –
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ISO 639-3 | variously: mku – Konyanka emk – Eastern Maninkaka msc – Sankaran Maninkaka mzj – Manya (Liberia) myq – Forest Maninka jod – Wojenaka jud – Worodougou kfo – Koro kga – Koyaga mxx – Mahou (Mawukakan) | |||
Note: Ii panna me saait IPA phonetic symbols Unicode me hoi. |
Maninka nai to Eastern Maninka 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: