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French usage is gender weighted as well, with 1984 figures showing 17.5% percent of males speaking French, but only 4.9% of women. [9] Bambara (Bambara: Bamanankan), a Manding language (in the Mande family) is said to be spoken by 80% of the population as a first or second language. [citation needed] It is
Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria. It lies between latitudes 10° and 25°N , and longitudes 13°W and 5°E . Mali borders Algeria to the north-northeast , Niger to the east , Burkina Faso to the south-east , Ivory Coast to the south , Guinea to the south-west , and Senegal to the west and Mauritania to ...
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]
French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1] The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language.
French spoken as a foreign language by ~11% of the population as of 2014 Madagascar: 1970–1977, 1989: officially bilingual, French included: Former French colony Mali: 1970: French: Former French colony. Mali's membership was suspended in March 2012 due to a coup, [11] and again in 2020. Mauritania: 1980: Arabic
Distribution of the French language in Europe. Spoken by 12% of the EU population, French is the second most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union, after German; it is also the third most widely known language of the Union, after English and German (33% of the EU population report to know how to speak English, whilst 22% of ...
The Bamana appeared again in this milieu with the rise of a Bamana Empire in the 1740s, when the Mali Empire started to crumble around 1559. While there is little consensus among modern historians and ethnologists as to the origins or meaning of the ethno-linguistic term, references to the name Bambara can be found from the early 18th century ...
A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world [1] [2] [3] spread across 34 countries and territories.