In The Gambia, Mandinka is spoken as a first language by 38% of the population, Pulaar by 21%, Wolof by 18%, Soninke by 9 percent, Jola by 4.5 percent, Serer by 2.4 percent, Manjak and Bainouk by 1.6 percent each, Portuguese Creole by 1 percent, and English by 0.5 percent. Smaller numbers speak several other languages. Gambian Sign Language is used by the deaf. English is the main language for official purposes and education.[1]
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TheGambia, officially the Republic oftheGambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, TheGambia is the smallest country in continental Africa;...
Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in TheGambia where it is one ofthe principal languages. Mandinka belongs to the Manding branch of Mande and...
Mauritania, and theGambia. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch ofthe Niger–Congo language family. Unlike...
The demographic characteristics ofthe population ofTheGambia are known through national censuses, conducted in ten-year intervals and analyzed by The...
Gambian English is the variety of English spoken in TheGambia. Gambian English has fewer speakers than any other variety of West African English (WAE)...
Gambian Sign Language is a national sign language used in Gambia by the deaf community there. The only school for deaf children in theGambia, St John's...
speak the Serer language (Serer-Sine). Because the people are ethnically Serer, the Cangin languages are commonly thought to be dialects ofthe Serer...
importance ofthe communities) in Senegal, Ivory Coast, TheGambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea. It enjoys the status of a national language in Mauritania...
TheGambian Creole people, or Krio or Aku, are a minority ethnic group ofGambia with connections to and roots from the Sierra Leone Creole people. In...
many of whom can be found in the Oio Region) as well as in theGambia. Films and portions ofthe Bible have been produced in Balanta-Kentohe. The Kəntɔhɛ...
separate languages. They are listed in the box at the beginning of this article. Fulfulde is an official lingua franca in Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, northeastern...
in the countries Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and theGambia. Manding is part ofthe larger Mandé family of languages...
theGambia, and western Mali. The two main speakers of Pulaar are the Toucouleur people and the Fulɓe (also known as Fulani or Peul). Pulaar is the second...
Senegal and 26,300 in TheGambia. The Manjak dialects below are distinct enough that some might be considered separate languages.[citation needed] Bok...
/bænˈdʒuːl/, US: /ˈbɑːndʒuːl/), officially the City of Banjul, is the capital ofTheGambia. It is the centre ofthe eponymous administrative division which...
from the Senegambia region and its history. Languagesof Senegal LanguagesoftheGambia Casamance conflict Senegal portal Gambia portal Language portal...
The music oftheGambia is closely linked musically with that of its neighbor, Senegal, which surrounds its inland frontiers completely. Among its prominent...
languageofthe Senegambian branch ofthe Niger–Congo family spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in theGambia as of 2009. It is the principal...
The Karon or Kalɔɔn language is an endangered languageof Senegal and Gambia. It belongs to the Bak branch ofthe Niger–Congo language family, and is particularly...
The ECOWAS military intervention in theGambia or the ECOWAS Mission in TheGambia (abbreviated ECOMIG) – initially code-named Operation Restore Democracy...
The dalasi is the currency oftheGambia that was adopted in 1971. It is subdivided into 100 bututs. It replaced theGambian pound at a rate of 1 pound...
ofthe Manding languages and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in...
December 1996) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a wing-back or winger for EFL League Two club Wrexham and theGambia national team. Mendy...
The coat of arms ofTheGambia has been in use since 18 November 1964. It depicts two lions holding an axe and hoe, supporting a shield that depicts another...
Terrence D. (2004). A preliminary report of existing information on the Manding languagesof West Africa: summary and suggestions for future research (Report)...
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