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Bambara, also known as Bamana (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲) or Bamanankan (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲; Arabic script: بَمَنَنكَن), is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 14 million people, natively by 4.2 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users. [1]
A Bambara warrior. A Bambara village. Traditionally, Mandé society is hierarchal or caste-based, with nobility and vassals. Bamana political order created a small free nobility, set in the midst of endogamous caste and ethnic variation. Both castes and ethnic groups performed vocational roles in the Bamana state, and this differentiation ...
N'Ko [a] (ߒߞߏ) is a standardized unified koiné form of several Manding languages written in the N'Ko alphabet.It is used in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and some other West African countries, primarily, but not exclusively, in written form, whereas in speech the different varieties of Manding are used: Maninka, Bambara, Dyula and others.
Bambara or Bambarra may refer to: Bambara people, an ethnic group, primarily in Mali Bambara language, their language, a Manding language; Bamana Empire, a state that ...
In December 2007 the Bambara Wikipedia had 142 articles and the Wikipedia in Fula had 28 articles. [1] In 2013 Valentin Vydrin, lead creator of the "Bamana Reference Corpus (BRC)", wrote that "The Bambara Wikipedia counts a couple of hundred entries, most of them rudimentary and often written without any respect for the rules of orthography." [3]
The Mande languages are a family of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples.They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai.
Mali (a national language along with Bambara, Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Mamara, Songhay, Soninke, Syenara, Tamasheq, the official language is French) Mauritania (a national language along with Soninke , Wolof , the official language is Arabic )
Shea butter (/ ʃ iː / SHEE, / ˈ ʃ iː ə / SHEE-ə, or / ʃ eɪ / SHAY; Bambara: ߛߌ߮ߕߎߟߎ, romanized: sìtulu [1]) is a fat (triglyceride; mainly oleic acid and stearic acid) extracted from the nut of the African shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa). [2] It is ivory in color when raw and commonly dyed yellow with borututu root or palm oil ...