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Other languages include Senufo in the Sikasso region (south), Fula (Fula: Fulfulde; French: Peul) as a widespread trade language in the Mopti region and beyond, the Songhay languages along the Niger, the Dogon languages of Pays Dogon or “Dogon country” in central Mali, Tamasheq in the eastern part of Mali's Sahara and Arabic in its western ...
Sign languages of Mali (4 P) Pages in category "Languages of Mali" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
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 the ...
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]
Languages; French (official), Bambara, Fulfulde (Peuhl), Songhai and Tamasheq: Religion; ... The largest ethnic group in Mali is the Bambara. [5] Diaspora
It is spoken mainly in Mali, Ivory Coast, and Ghana by 1.6 million people. [1] The language has several mutually intelligible dialects albeit with some differences. The variety is named after the Macina region in Mali. [2] Maasinankoore is the most widely spoken dialect of Fula spoken in Mali and is a national language of the country. [2]
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 )
The Mande languages show a few lexical similarities with the Atlantic–Congo language family, so together they have been proposed as parts of a larger Niger–Congo language family since the 1950s. However, the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology that is the primary identifying feature of the Atlantic–Congo languages.