Mali is a multilingual country of about 21.9 million people. The languages spoken there reflect ancient settlement patterns, migrations, and its long history. Ethnologue counts more than 80 languages. Of these, Bambara, Bobo, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Hassaniya, Kassonke, Maninke, Minyanka, Senufo, Songhay languages, Soninke and Tamasheq are official languages.[1][2] French is the working language.[1]
^ ab"JOURNAL OFFICIEL DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU MALI SECRETARIAT GENERAL DU GOUVERNEMENT - DECRET N°2023-0401/PT-RM DU 22 JUILLET 2023 PORTANT PROMULGATION DE LA CONSTITUTION" (PDF). sgg-mali.ml. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023. Article 31 : Les langues nationales sont les langues officielles du Mali.
^"JOURNAL OFFICIEL DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU MALI" (PDF). sgg-mali.ml. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2023. Langues nationales : langues considérées comme propres à une nation ou à un pays. Selon la Loi n°96- 049 du 23 août 1996, les langues nationales du Mali sont : le bamanankan (bambara), le bomu (bobo), le bozo (bozo), le dTgTsT (dogon), le fulfulde (peul), le hasanya (maure), le mamara (miniyanka), le maninkakan (malinké) le soninke (sarakolé), le soKoy (songhoï), le syenara (sénoufo), le tamasayt (tamasheq), le xaasongaxanKo (khassonké).
Mali is a multilingual country of about 21.9 million people. The languages spoken there reflect ancient settlement patterns, migrations, and its long history...
over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languagesof Africa belong...
The country has 13 official languages, of which Bambara is the most commonly spoken. The sovereign state ofMali consists of 19 regions; its borders on...
/ˈtwɑːrɛɡ/) languages constitute a group of closely related Berber languages and dialects. They are spoken by the Tuareg Berbers in large parts ofMali, Niger...
The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people ofMali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family...
Songhai or Ayneha languages ([sõʁaj], [soŋaj] or [soŋoj]) are a group of closely related languages/dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River...
Gambia. Manding is part of the larger Mandé family oflanguages. Bambara is spoken throughout Mali as a lingua franca. The language is most widely spoken...
the most widely spoken language in Mali; Maninka or Malinké, a major languageof Guinea and Mali; and Jula, a trade languageof Ivory Coast and western...
instead of Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family....
of the Mande languages; the closest linguistic relative is Soninke, a major language spoken in the northwestern section of southern Mali, in eastern Senegal...
Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and the Western Sahara. The phonological system of Hassānīya exhibits both very innovative...
Senufo language spoken by about 750,000 people in southeastern Mali. It is closely related to Supyire. Minyanka is one of the national languagesofMali. A...
Maninka, is the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family (itself, possibly...
Mali or Gaktai is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. There are two dialects of Mali:...
([kojra tʃiːni], figuratively "town language"), or Western Songhay, is a member of the Songhay languages spoken in Mali by about 200,000 people (in 1999)...
Prajakta Mali (born 8 August 1989) is an Indian actress known for her work in Marathi film and television. She was born in Pandharpur and brought up in...
HARSHE Journal of African Languages: 169–186. Wilson, W. A. A. (1945). "Atlantic". In Bendor-Samuel, John (ed.). The Niger–Congo Languages. pp. 81–104....
(Khassonké) language, Xaasongaxango (Xasonga), or Western Maninka (Malinke), is a Manding language spoken by the Khassonké and Malinke of western Mali and by...
romanized: Mālī). Mali is the Fula form of the word. In the Manding languages, the modern descendants of the language spoken at the core of the Mali Empire, Manden...
is a Romance languageof the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...
Africa. The language has an estimated 2.3 million speakers, primarily located in Mali and Mauritania, and also (in order of numerical importance of the communities)...
history, especially languagesof Muslim cultures and countries that were conquered by Muslims. Some of the most influenced languages are Persian, Turkish...
sign language varieties of ASL in countries other than the US and Canada, languages based on ASL with substratum influence from local sign languages, and...
rebels fall out over al-Qaeda's jihad in Mali", The Daily Telegraph File:Statistiques.JPG "LanguagesofMali". Ethnologue.com. Archived from the original...
Education in Mali is considered a fundamental right of Malians. For most ofMali's history, the government split primary education into two cycles which...
Dioula, Julakan ߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߞߊ߲) is a languageof the Mande language family spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali, and also in some other countries...
is a Senufo language spoken in the Sikasso Region of southeastern Mali and in adjoining regions of Ivory Coast. In their native language, the noun sùpyìré...
of Tuareg, a Berber macro-language widely spoken by nomadic tribes across North Africa in Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Tamasheq is one of the...
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