mandinka

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Definition von mandinka im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A people of West Africa

The language spoken by these people, of the Mandé group of the Niger-Congo language family

{i} member of people who live in sections of West Africa (Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Gambia); member of a Mandingo people; language spoken by the Mandinka

Etymologie

() From Mandinka Mandinka (“someone from Mande”), from Mandiŋ (“Mande”) + -ka (“inhabitant suffix”).