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Preferred term

bamBambara  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Bambara, more correctly known as Bamanankan (ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲), its designation in the language itself (literally Bamana(n) sound), is a language spoken in Mali by as many as six million people (including second language users). The Bambara language is the mother tongue of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 4,000,000 people, but serves also as a lingua franca in Mali (it is estimated that about 80% of the population speaks it as a first or second language). It is an Subject–object–verb language and has two tones.

Entry terms

  • Bambara language

ISO 639-1 code

  • bm

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • bam

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • bam

ISO 639-3 code

  • bam

Notation

  • bam

In other languages

  • Bambara

    French

  • bambara
  • Bambara

    German

  • Bambara-Sprache
  • bambara

    Italian

  • Lingua bambara
  • bambara

    Portuguese

  • Língua bambara
  • bambara

    Spanish

  • Idioma bambara

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bam

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