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Manding > Xaasongaxango

Preferred term

Xaasongaxango  

Definition

  • The Kassonke (Khassonké) language, Xaasongaxango (Xasonga) is a Manding language spoken by the Khassonké and Malinke of western Mali. Kassonke is an official language in Mali. Western and Eastern Maninka are 90% mutually intelligible, though distinct from the Mandinka (Malinke) of southern Senegal, which is a national language there. Manding languages are a sub-branch of Mande languages that are part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family. However, as the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology, linguists increasingly treat Mande and Atlantic–Congo as independent language families and reject the Niger-Congo hypothesis.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Kassonke

Identifier

  • KAO

Notation

  • kao

In other languages

  • касонке

    Bulgarian

  • xaasongaxango

    Croatian

  • kasonke
  • xaasongaxango

    Czech

  • xaasongaxango

    Danish

  • Xaasongaxango

    Dutch

  • hasonga

    Estonian

  • khasonka

    Finnish

  • khassonké

    French

  • Xaasongaxango

    German

  • Χασονγκαχάνγκο

    Greek

  • kaszonga

    Hungarian

  • Sáisiongasaingis

    Irish

  • Xaasongaxango

    Italian

  • gāsongasengo

    Latvian

  • hasonkų

    Lithuanian

  • Xaasongaxango

    Maltese

  • kassonke

    Polish

  • cassonga

    Portuguese

  • xaasongaxango

    Romanian

  • xaasongaxango

    Slovak

  • hasonščina

    Slovenian

  • Xaasongaxango

    Spanish

  • kassonke

    Swedish

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KAO

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