Mandinkan.adj.

1934 G. N. N. Nunn (title) A short phrase book and classified vocabulary from English into Mandinka [published in Gambia].

1957 M. Banton West Afr. City vii. 122 The Kissi..speak a separate language similar to that of the Bulom but now much influenced by Mandinka.

1979 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 220 Mandinka = Maninka is used to refer to Guinea-Ivory Coast-Mali forms.

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.

1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 354 The total number of indigenous languages used in Guiné-Bissau..is about 15,..all of them belonging to the Atlantic group of the Niger-Congo family, except two, Mandinka, a Manding dialect (Niger-Congo, Mande), and Susu.

1992 I. A. E. Cunningham Syntactic Anal. Sea Island Creole 167 SI Creole has evidently maintained the characteristic of a strongly marked aspectual system..found in many West African languages, e.g., Ewe, Mandinka, Kimbundu, and Yoruba.

1854 S. W. Koelle Polyglotta Africana 2 He says that all Mandén·gas originally came from Mánde.

1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 179 The Mande-nga occupy a mountainous Region, but spread far beyond their natural boundaries, conquering and assimilating weaker and inferior Races... The Mande-nga are a fine and superior Race, and for the most part Mahometan, though some of the subjected tribes are still Pagan.]

1957 M. Banton West Afr. City iv. 62 Tribes largely resident in Freetown or the Colony area, for example, Kru, Sherbro and Mandinka.

1957 M. Banton West Afr. City 127 There are about 125,000 Mandinka in West Africa, from Senegal to the Ivory Coast.

1971 D. Dalby in C. T. Hodge Papers on Manding 3 The peoples who, by their actual name (Mandinka or Maninka), trace their origins to the Manding heartland, are now distributed in an arc of some eight hundred miles, extending from the mouth of the Gambia in the north-west to the interior of the Ivory Coast in the south-east.

1987 She Nov. 144/2 As a Mandinka he understood every nuance of social and regional life yet he spoke perfect English, a boon as we saw no other white faces on the trip.

1953 D. P. Gamble (title) Economic conditions in two Mandinka villages.

1959 E. C. Rowlands Gram. Gambian Mandinka ii. 21 The syllables of a Mandinka word..are pronounced without any significant differences of stress.

1976 A. Haley Roots vii. 21 Kunta would always turn and walk away, thus displaying the dignity and self-command that his mother had taught him were the proudest traits of the Mandinka tribe.

1992 Down Beat Feb. 36/2 Monte Kante..forged his own brand of Mandinka funk.