Spoken L1 Language: Eastern Maninkakan
- AES status:
- not endangered
- Source:
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David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
- Comment:
- Maninkakan, Eastern (emk-emk) = 3 (Wider communication). De facto language of national identity. Originated in one of the Mali empires (1235–1670). Language of court and government during the Mali empire. Widely spoken in the 1890s during French colonization. Native to Guinea, Mali, and Sierra Leone. Maninka people have high regard for their language.
Glottolog
[emk] at ISO 639-3
[emk] at OLAC
[emk] at IMTVault
Maninka at WALS
PHOIBLE
Wikidata