Kita Maninka language
| Kita Maninkakan | |
|---|---|
| Central Malinke | |
| Native to | Mali |
| Ethnicity | Mandinka |
Native speakers | 450,000 (2009 census)[1] |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in |
Mali |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: mwk – Kita Maninka xkg – Kagoro |
| Glottolog |
kita1248[2] |
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.
References
- ↑ Kita Maninka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Kagoro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kita–Kagoro". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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