• Wakore, Wankori, Ouankri, Wangarawa) are a diaspora community of ethnic Soninke origin who served as specialized long-distance merchants throughout West...
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  • Azer dialect (category Soninke language)
    of the Soninke language, heavily mixed with Berber and Hassaniya Arabic, formerly spoken in Mauritania and northern Mali. Azer arose as a lingua franca...
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    Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon (Serer-Noon), Pulaar, Serer, and Soninke. In terms of usage, Wolof is the lingua franca and the most widely spoken language in Senegal...
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    part of the Ghana Empire. Islam was introduced through Toucouleur and Soninke contact with the Almoravid dynasty of the Maghreb, who in turn propagated...
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    in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the United Kingdom (English)...
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    The language serves as a lingua franca in the country. It is also the language of the Imraguen who also use elements of Soninke. Berber Zenaga is a Berber...
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  • sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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    Gur, Jula-Bambara, Akan, and Soninke, as Ghana is the westernmost area in which the Hausa language is a major lingua-franca among sahelian/Muslim West...
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    Mali (category Articles containing Soninke-language text)
    Maninke, Minyanka, Senufo, the Songhay languages, Soninke and Tamasheq, became official languages. The lingua franca in Mali is mainly Bambara, which about...
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    production, the written press, legislation and administration. The local lingua franca, spoken by 90.4% according to the same census, is a creole language...
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    he also observes that Soninke has what all linguists would analyze as inflections, and that current lexicography of Soninke is too elementary for it...
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    (ethnonymic, cf. Soninke -nke, Mandinka -nka), -anta (ordinal, cf. Soninke -ndi, Mandinka -njaŋ...), -anta (resultative participle, cf. Soninke -nte), -endi...
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    taught as a mandatory subject in many schools in East Africa, and is a lingua franca of the East African Community. Other major Bantu languages include...
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    the Sahel. The latter were primarily acquired through mixing with Wolof, Soninke and other populations of the southern Sahel, and through the acquisition...
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    even trilingual. Such languages include French, Hausa, Bambara, Wolof, Soninke, and Arabic. Major concentrations of Fulani people exist in the Fouta Djallon...
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    of it. Serekunda is an ethnic enclave of Soninke people, including many from the town of Sabi. Some Soninke migrants move their families to Serekunda...
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    languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian...
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    They 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...
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  • and English. Mauritania: Arabic (official and national), French, Poular, Soninke, and Wolof (national). Morocco: Arabic and Amazigh (co-official). Moroccan...
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    correspondants en ouslof de Saint-Louis, en poular, Toucoulor, du Fouta, en Soninké, Sarakhollé, de Bakel. Saint-Louis, Senegal: Imprimerie du Gouvernement...
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    widely spoken by the total number of speakers is Swahili, which is used as a lingua franca in parts of eastern and southeastern Africa. While the ultimate genetic...
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    Sahelian areas of West Africa (Mandinka, Soninke, Hausa, Songhai, Fulani, etc.) who have adopted Hausa language as a lingua franca. Members of the Zongo community...
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  • chiShona snd snd sd Sindhi Individual Living سنڌي / सिन्धी / ਸਿੰਧੀ snk snk Soninke Individual Living Sooninkanxanne sog sog Sogdian Individual Ancient som...
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    Benin); Gwari (in central Nigeria); and the Mandinka, Bambara, Dioula and Soninke (in Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast and Guinea).[citation needed] All...
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    established a theocratic state in the Futa Djallon. With some support from Soninke and Mandinka chiefs, they launched a jihad against non-Muslim states in...
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  • nation, traditional stories connect the northern Mande of Ghana – the Soninke, Dyula, Ligby, and Bissa – to peoples displaced following the collapse...
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  • including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. In addition, English serves as the lingua franca of Israel. Though many Jewish languages are not genetically related...
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    mentions the Tuareg, the historian Elias N. Saad in 1983 suggests the Soninke Wangara, while the Africanist John Hunwick wrote in 2003 that several states...
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  • language or culture, such as in the Senegambia region. In Senegal, Wolof is a lingua franca The Wolofization phenomenon has taken over all facets of Senegal...
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    West Africa who speak the various Songhai languages. Their history and lingua franca is linked to the Songhai Empire which dominated the western Sahel...
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