Kita Maninka language

Kita Maninkakan
Central Malinke
Native to Mali
Ethnicity Mandinka
Native speakers
450,000  (2009 census)[1]
Niger–Congo
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

  1. Kita Maninka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kagoro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kita–Kagoro". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.