| Kita Maninkakan | |
|---|---|
| Central Malinke | |
| Spoken in | Mali |
| Ethnicity | Mandinka |
| Native speakers | 600,000 (1991) |
| Language family | |
| Recognised minority language in | Mali |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | either: mwk – Kita Maninka xkg – Kagoro |
Kita Maninkakan, or Central Malinke, is a Manding language spoken by close to a million people in Mali, where it is a national language.. About 10% are ethnically Fula.
The Kagoro variety is 86% lexically similar according to Ethnologue, and is being replaced by Bambara.