Maninka bhasa
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Maninka bhasa ek bhasa hae.
Maninka | ||||
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Malinke | ||||
Jahan baat karaa jaae hae | Guinea, Mali, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire | Census ke date | 1986 | |
Ketnaa jan baat kare hae | 2.8 million | |||
Bhasa ke palwaar | 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:
- 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.
References
[badlo | source ke badlo]- Vydrine, Valentin. Manding–English Dictionary (Maninka, Bomana). Volume 1: A, B, D–DAD, Supplemented by Some Entries From Subsequent Volumes (1999). Dimitry Bulanin Publishing House, 315 pp. ISBN 5860071787.