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Manding > Kita Maninkakan

Preferred term

Kita Maninkakan  

Definition

  • Kita 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. 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

  • Kita Maninka

Identifier

  • MWK

Notation

  • mwk

In other languages

  • кита-манинкакан

    Bulgarian

  • kita maninka

    Croatian

  • središnja maninka
  • kita maninkakan

    Czech

  • centralmalinke

    Danish

  • Kita-Maninkakan

    Dutch

  • Kita malinke

    Estonian

  • kitanmaninka

    Finnish

  • kita maninkakan

    French

  • Kita-Maninkakan

    German

  • Κίτα Μανινκακάν

    Greek

  • középmalinké

    Hungarian

  • középmaninka
  • Manancacáinis Chíte

    Irish

  • Kita maninkakan

    Italian

  • kita maninkakanu

    Latvian

  • Kitos maninkų

    Lithuanian

  • Kita Maninkakan

    Maltese

  • kita maninka

    Polish

  • maninca de Kita

    Portuguese

  • maninka kita

    Romanian

  • kita maninkakan

    Slovak

  • malinščina

    Slovenian

  • Kita maninkakan

    Spanish

  • centralmalinke

    Swedish

URI

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

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