Mandingn.adj.

a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIV. 473/2 The Mandingás..seem to have been anciently the most widely extended of any of the negro nations [margin Mundingo or Manding].

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. The name (other versions of which are Mandi.., Manding) is properly applied only to the people commonly known as Malinke and to their speech.

1971 D. Dalby in C. T. Hodge Papers on Manding 1 The traditional culture of the Manding remains, nevertheless, among the most distinguished of Africa and—in terms of music, oral art, philosophy and sculpture—deserves greater renown than it has so far received.

1972 Times 29 June 16/2 The term ‘Manding’ embraces a number of West African peoples who speak related forms of the same language and share a similar culture. The Manding language, in a variety of dialects.., is spoken by some 10 million people.

1972 Times 29 June 16/5 The pious Manding who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.

1972 Times 29 June 16/5 The Manding have always been natural travellers.

1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 354 As for the Mandings, although their original homeland lies further East, they have been dominant in the Casamance area for a long time, and they have an old tradition of trading.

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. The name (other versions of which are Mandi, Male, Mali, Mele.., Manding) is properly applied only to the people commonly known as Malinke and to their speech.

1971 D. Dalby in C. T. Hodge Papers on Manding 2 The Manding peoples, although possessing a sense of cultural and linguistic unity, do not employ a universal cover-term for the overall ethno-linguistic cluster to which they belong...In French, the term ‘mandingue’ has been used generically to fill this terminological gap, and ‘Manding’ is employed in this paper as the most suitable English equivalent.

1974 Afr. Encycl. 324/2 The word dyula in Manding means ‘travelling trader’.

1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 35 379 As a prelude to the study, Hancock talks..of Manding languages. He then presents..the phonemes of Manding.

1969 W. B. Morgan & J. C. Pugh W. Afr. i. i. 24 The Senoufo are a Voltaic community who have adopted many Manding and Akan customs. They live well to the south, in sub-Sudanic and sub-Guinean environments.

1971 D. Dalby in C. T. Hodge Papers on Manding 2 The wide distribution of Manding toponyms.., the extensive use of Manding proper names among non-Manding peoples.., and the widespread presence of Manding loan-words in other West African languages, all serve to indicate that the influence of the Manding languages was even greater in the past than it is today.

1971 D. Dalby in C. T. Hodge Papers on Manding 4 The radio services of Upper Volta and Ivory Coast select their Manding speakers from the Manding heartland, on the borders of southern Mali.

1983 I. F. Hancock in I. R. Dihoff Current Approaches to Afr. Linguistics I. xv. 249 Ethnic groups speaking dialects of the Manding language in Sierra Leone include the Bambara, Dyula, Kuranko, Mandinka, Maninka and Manyaka. By far the most widely represented of these is the Maninka, usually referred to as Mandinka or Mandingo in reference to Sierra Leone.

1991 P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Music 21 Tata Bambo's work..was an outstandingly successful updating of pure Manding music.