Kuranko language

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Kuranko
Native to Sierra Leone, Guinea
Native speakers
 270,000 in Sierra Leone (2006)
55,000 in Guinea  (1991)[1]
Niger–Congo ?
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • Central–Western
        • Central Mande
          • Manding–Jogo
            • Manding–Vai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 knk

Kuranko is a Mande language spoken by approximately 350,000 people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Guinea it blends into Eastern Maninkakan dialectologically, but the people are ethnically distinct.

References

  1. ↑ Kuranko reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)


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