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    The Manding languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are a dialect continuum within the Niger-Congo family spoken in West Africa. Varieties of Manding are generally...
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  • Mand, or Atemble, is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Atemble village (5°05′32″S 144°46′29″E / 5.092351°S 144...
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  • Manding may be: One of the Manding languages Specifically the Mandinka language Manding (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • Look up Manding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Manding may refer to: Manding languages, a language-dialect continuum in West Africa Mandinka (disambiguation)...
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  • closely related languages called Manding, whose native speakers trace their cultural history to the medieval Mali Empire. Varieties of Manding are generally...
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  • the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family (itself, possibly linked to...
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    system for the Manding languages of West Africa. The term NKo, which means I say in all Manding languages, is also used for the Manding literary standard...
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  • Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages. Mandinka belongs to the Manding branch of Mande and is similar to Bambara and Maninka/Malinké...
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    The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include...
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  • NKo (ߒߞߏ) is a standardized unified koiné form of several Manding languages written in the NKo alphabet. It is used in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory...
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    Burkina Faso. The name "Jula" is actually a Manding word meaning "trader.") Other Mande languages (not in the Manding group) include Soninke (in the region...
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  • the Manding languages and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke. It is a trade language in West...
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  • The Kassonke (Khassonké) language, Xaasongaxango (Xasonga), or Western Maninka (Malinke), is a Manding language spoken by the Khassonké and Malinke of...
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    Kora (instrument) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    The kora (Manding languages: ߞߐߙߊ kɔra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by...
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  • Mand is a term that B.F. Skinner used to describe a verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore...
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    Solomana Kante (category Articles containing N'Ko-language text)
    alphabet for the Manding language varieties of Africa. Kanté created N'Ko, a modern script for, as he saw it, the Manding language in 1949 after five...
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    N'Ko, which is both a script and an emerging literary version of the Manding languages. Great Andamanese koine, mixed Khora–Bo–Jeru–Sare on a Jeru base Amoy...
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  • refer to: N'Ko script, for writing Manding NKo (Unicode block) N'Ko language, a stardardization of the Manding languages in West Africa This disambiguation...
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  • Marka, also called Dafing, is a Manding language of West Africa, spoken in northwest Burkina Faso. Marka at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e...
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  • Maninkakan, or Central Malinke, is a Manding language spoken by about a million people in Mali, where it is a national language. About 10% are ethnically Fula...
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  • to 14th centuries) Classical Manding (language of the Mali Empire, 13th to 16th centuries) Old Ruthenian (one language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
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    for varieties of the Syriac language. Mandaic alphabet (Mand 140) – closely related to Syriac, used for the Mandaic language. Samaritan script (Samr 123)...
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  • Epic of Sundiata (category Epic poems in Manding languages)
    Sunjata (/sʊnˈdʒɑːtə/; Manding languages: ߛߏ߲߬ߖߘߊ߬ Sònjàdà, also referred to as Sundiata or Son-Jara; Arabic: ملحمة سوندياتا; French: L'épopée de Soundjata)...
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  • Mandinka (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    the Mandingo Mandinka language, a Manding language of West Africa, belonging to the Mande subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family Mandinka people...
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    Mandinka people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    largest ethnic-linguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the Mande language family, which are a lingua franca in much of West Africa...
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    Mänd is a common surname in Estonia (meaning pine), and may refer to: Ahti Mänd (born 1958), politician Heljo Mänd (1926–2020), children's writer Raivo...
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    umlaut (i.e. changing the vowel of the stem) (e.g. fod/fødder "foot/feet", mand/mænd "man/men") or "weak" stems inflected through affixation (e.g. skib/skibe...
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  • blends the principal elements of the partially mutually intelligible Manding languages. The movement promoting N'Ko literacy was instrumental in shaping...
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  • Mand (Balochi: مند), is a town located in Kech District in southern Balochistan province of Pakistan. On 21 April 2021, the third international border...
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    various languages, notably via the Africa Alphabet in many sub-Saharan languages such as Hausa, Fula, Akan, Gbe languages, Manding languages, Lingala...
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