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单词 mande
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Manden.adj.

Brit. /ˈmɑːndeɪ/, /ˈmandeɪ/, U.S. /ˈmɑnˌdeɪ/, /ˈmænˌdeɪ/, West African English /ˈmande/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mande.
Etymology: < Mande (also Manden), the name of the traditional Manding homeland on the Upper Niger (in Manding dialects Mandeŋ, Mandẽ, or Mandiŋ; the form Mande is of limited distribution).Compare:1854 S. W. Koelle Polyglotta Africana 2 He says that all Mandén·gas originally came from Mánde. Kˉába is situate on the river Dṣˉélˉiba, and is the capital of the Mánde country.1971 C. S. Bird in C. T. Hodge Papers on Manding 15 I use the term Mande, as it is used in the oral art, to refer to the historic region located on the upper Niger, which extended roughly from Ségou in the North to Kouroussa in the south, and from the Sarakani in the east to the headwaters of the Falémé in the west. For other forms derived from the same Manding root see Mali adj. and n.3, Malinke n. and adj., Manding n. and adj., Mandingo n. and adj., Mandinka n. and adj., and Maninka n. Mande was first applied to the linguistic subfamily in German in H. Steinthal Die Mande-Neger-Sprachen psychologisch u. phonetisch betrachtet (1867). The current use was established in M. Delafosse Essai de manuel pratique de la langue mandé ou mandingue (1901).
A. n.
1. Originally: the people of the Mande region collectively. Subsequently: a group of peoples speaking languages related to that of the Mande region.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [noun]
Fulbe1623
Mandingo1623
Akani1662
Gola1670
Ashanti1705
Beninese1705
Wolof1745
Igbo1757
Susu1786
Temne1791
Mossi1819
Ibibio1822
Koranko1825
Vaia1832
Sherbro1836
Yoruba1843
Akan1849
Songhai1851
Yoruban1853
Mitshi1854
Ijo1856
Igbirra1863
Soninke1869
Efik1876
Kanuri1876
Fante1879
Malinke1883
Mande1883
Kissi1884
Nupe1885
Mende1887
Ho1890
Benin1897
Limba1902
Munchi1905
Kono1909
Senufo1911
Tallensi1920
Yakö1926
Mandinka1957
Tiv1960
Togolese1962
Loma1964
1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 186 The Mende are Pagans and turbulent. Care must be taken to distinguish the Mende from the Mande.
1930 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. iii. 59 The Mandingo—more correctly the Mendi or Mande—constitute one of the most important groups of French Senegal.
1952 D. Westermann & M. A. Bryan Lang. W. Afr. ii. 31 The name Mande or Mandingo is a general term applied by Europeans and others to all the tribes speaking Mande languages.
1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) viii. 93 Among the southern Mande the ruler of a kafu was known as a mansa.
2.
a. The language spoken by the people of Mande.Now more commonly called Manding.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Mande > Mandinka
Koranko1883
Mande1883
Malinke1911
Mandinka1934
Manding1952
Maninka1964
Mandekan1977
1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 179 Mande alias Mande-ngo, Mande-nga. It is one of the most important and extensively-used Languages in West Africa. It is the Language of a conquering Race, and has an extension beyond its natural boundaries...Steinthal points out that the final syllable [of Mande-nga] is a Suffix, which conveys the meaning of the people themselves, while their Language should properly be called Mande...The Mande Language is exhibited to us in Vocabularies by Koelle with four Dialects.
1968 G. Jackson Let. 6 Mar. in Soledad Brother (1971) 152 The oldest language is one spoken in Africa: Mande.
b. A subfamily of the Niger–Congo language family comprising about 60 languages spoken over a wide area of the western part of West Africa.
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1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 564/2 Delafosse divides the Mandingo group linguistically into three main sections: (1) the Mande-tamu, (2) the Mande-fu, and (3) the Mande-tã, according as they use for the numeral 10 the root tamu, tã or fu.
1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 112 Mandingo. Mande-speaking peoples of which the Malinke are the largest.
1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) viii. 92 Another early example of urban development, once again from what must have been Mande-speaking country, [etc.].
B. adj.
Designating Mande as a language group; of or relating to this group.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [adjective]
Akani1686
Ashantian1705
Igbo1732
Mandingo1744
Nago1775
Temne1791
Wolof1828
Nupe1829
Kru1835
Gola1843
Mpongwe1844
Efik1849
Yoruban1853
Mossi1854
Fulbe1857
Ewe1861
Fan1861
Ibibio1862
Akan1863
Fon1864
Soninke1870
Mende1872
Ijo1883
Mande1883
Yoruba1883
Mitshi1892
Benin1893
Munchi1908
Yakö1926
Tallensi1936
Tiv1939
Limba1954
Kissi1957
Loma1957
1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 186 They [sc. the Vei] belong to the Mande Cluster.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 565/1 The manati was the totem of the Mande group.
1952 D. Westermann & M. A. Bryan Lang. W. Afr. ii. 31 The Mande languages are spoken over a vast area extending from the Atlantic coast to the Black Volta.
1969 Liberian Stud. Jrnl. 1 25 The Kpelle, Loma, Bandi and Mende are included in the Southwestern Mande group.
1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) x. 125 Mande migrants from the interior were carving out little kingdoms among the previously stateless ‘West Atlantic’ peoples.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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