Not to be confused with Dinka language or Maninka language.
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Mandinka
Mandinko مَانْدِنْجَوْ ߡߊ߲߬ߘߌ߲߬ߞߊ
Native to
Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Guinea
Region
Casamance
Ethnicity
Mandinka
Native speakers
2.1 million (2017–2022)[1]
Language family
Niger-Congo?
Mande
Western Mande
Manding
West Manding
Mandinka
Writing system
Arabic, Latin, N'Ko
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Senegal
Language codes
ISO 639-3
mnk
Glottolog
mand1436
Linguasphere
00-AAA-aa
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A Mandinka speaker, recorded in Taiwan.
The Mandinka language (Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages.
Mandinka belongs to the Manding branch of Mande and is not similar to Bambara and Maninka/Malinké but with only 5 instead of 7 vowels.
The variety spoken in The Gambia and Senegal borders on a pitch accent due to its proximity with non-tonal neighboring languages like Wolof.
The Mandinkalanguage (Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern...
speak the Manding languages in the Mande language family, which are a lingua franca in much of West Africa. Virtually all of Mandinka people are adherent...
Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40...
spoken language in Senegal, as a first or second language (80%). Mande languages spoken include Soninke, and Mandinka. Jola (Diola) is a main language in...
tigadèguèna originates from the Mandinka and Bambara people of Mali. The proper name for it in the Mandinkalanguage is domodah or tigadegena (lit. 'peanut...
Manding languages, a language-dialect continuum in West Africa Mandinka (disambiguation) Mandinkalanguage, one of the Manding languagesMandinka people...
are Mandinka or Mandingo, the principal language of The Gambia; Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali; Maninka or Malinké, a major language of...
meaning a girl or a girlfriend. It is a loanword either from the Mandinkalanguage or from English ("girl"). It is also French hip-hop slang for a girl...
and Gur peoples of West Africa, particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, but is now found across West Africa from Guinea, Burkina...
The term banjo has several etymological claims, one being from the Mandinkalanguage which gives the name of Banjul, capital of The Gambia. Another claim...
claims that Banjul takes its name from Bang julo, the Mandinka word for rope fibre that the Mandinka people gathered on the island.[citation needed] In 1651...
Mali. "Domodah" is also used by all Senegambians borrowed from the Mandinkalanguage. James McCann. Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine, p....
Manding may be: One of the Manding languages Specifically the Mandinkalanguage Manding (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Sundiata Keita (Mandinka, Malinke: [sʊndʒæta keɪta]; c. 1217–c. 1255, N'Ko spelling: ߛߏ߲߬ߖߘߊ߬ ߞߋߕߊ߬; also known as Manding Diara, Lion of Mali, Sogolon...
custard apple, wild soursop, abo ibobo (Yoruba language), sunkungo (Mandinkalanguage), and dorgot (Wolof language) is a species of flowering plant in the custard...
(or xalam), the ngoni, the kontigi, and the goje (or n'ko in the Mandinkalanguage). Other instruments include the balafon, and the junjung. The kora...
Islamized due to the influence of the nearby Mandinka people. As a result, many Jola no longer speak their own language and more than half are now Muslims. Unlike...
etymologies, or possibly folk etymologies. H. L. Mencken, in The American Language, lists serious candidates and "a few of the more picturesque or preposterous"...
(causative, cf. Soninke, Mandinka -ndi), and the postposition ra "in" (cf. Manding lá, Soso ra...)[citation needed] The Songhay languages are considered to be...
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...
Kassonke is an official language in Mali. Western and Eastern Maninka are 90% mutually intelligible, though distinct from the Mandinka (Malinke) of southern...
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