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Preferred term

snkSoninke  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne ) is a Mande language spoken by the Soninke people of West Africa. The language has an estimated 1,096,795 speakers, primarily located in Mali, and also (in order of numerical importance of the communities) in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Ghana. It enjoys the status of a national language in Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania.

Entry terms

  • Soninke language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • snk

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • snk

ISO 639-3 code

  • snk

Notation

  • snk

In other languages

  • soninké

    French

  • Soninké
  • Soninke

    German

  • Soninke-Sprache
  • soninke

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Língua soninquê
  • soninké

    Spanish

  • Idioma soninké

URI

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

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