Soninke language
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The Soninke language (Soninke: Soninkanxaane) is a Mande language spoken by the Soninke people of West Africa. The language has an estimated 1,096,795 speakers, primarily located in Mali, but also within Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal.
The language is relatively homogeneous, with only slight phonological, lexical, and grammatical variations.
Linguistically, its nearest relatives are the Bozo languages, centered around the Niger Inland Delta.
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