Kuranko language

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
Glottolog kura1250[2]

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