Manding languages
Encyclopedia : M : MA : MAN : Manding languages
The Manding languages are a fairly mutually intelligible group of dialects in West Africa, belonging to the Mande languages. Their best-known members are Bambara (the largest single language of Mali), Mandinka (the main language of Gambia), Maninka (or Malinké, a major language of Guinea), and Dioula (an important language of the northern Côte d'Ivoire.) Smaller languages/dialects belonging to the group include Khassonké. A traditional collective term for these languages is "N'Ko", after the words meaning "I say"; the N'Ko alphabet is designed to write Manding using a common literary standard comprehensible to speakers of all these varieties.
See also
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.