Malinken.adj.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 475/2 Mandingoes, otherwise known as Wangawara, Malinkes, or Wakore..are one of the most widely distributed and important peoples of Western Africa to the north of the equator.

1911 F. W. H. Migeod Lang. W. Afr. I. i. 33 Among the tribes whose languages furnish evidence of the extent of Mandingo influence are the Malinke, Bambara, Susu, [etc.].

1913 F. W. H. Migeod Lang. W. Afr. II. xxi. 332 The Malinke held in the past a less leading position than many other branches of the Mandingos.

1971 D. Dalby in C. T. Hodge Papers on Manding 3 The French form ‘malinké’ has been used to embrace all these Mandinka and Maninka peoples, together with the peoples described below as ‘Fringe Mandinka’, and within this subsidiary segment of Manding a four-way dialect division has been proposed by Delafosse: his eastern ‘malinké’ is spoken in the Manding heartland and along the borders of Mali and Guinea, his northern ‘malinké’ (i.e. Khasonka) on the Upper Senegal, his western ‘malinké’ in the Gambia, Casamance, Portuguese Guinea and western Guinea, and his southern ‘malinké’ in south-eastern Guinea and adjacent parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast.

1994 Folk Roots Mar. 39/2 The main electoral rival to President Lansana Conte, a Susu, was Alpha Conde, a Malinke from Kankan.

1911 F. W. H. Migeod Lang. W. Afr. I. viii. 202 Malinke, Susu, and Soninke take suffixes to the verb.

1913 F. W. H. Migeod Lang. W. Afr. II. xxi. 332 It may be useful to take Malinke as the standard dialect of the language or group, whichever it may be called.

1950 D. Jones Phoneme xxviii. 206 Variphones consisting of r-like and l-like sounds would also appear to occur in some languages of Africa, for instance, in Bambara and Malinke.

1952 D. Westermann & M. A. Bryan Langs. of W. Africa 33 Malinke, Bambara, and Dyula, with other dialects, are so closely interrelated that they must be considered..as dialects of one Cluster...Three ‘dialects’ of Malinke are generally recognized, spoken in the west, north, and south of the Malinke language area.

1964 Anthropol. Linguistics May 57 Malinke-Bambara-Dyula constitutes a dialect cluster... Malinke (Mandinka, Mandinga, Manenka, Maninka): approximately 1,200,000 speakers.

1979 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 220 ‘Malinke’ normally refers to West Malinke (Senegal, Portuguese Guinea, Gambia).

1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 106 Lobi and Malinke xylophones.

1994 Folk Roots Mar. 39/2 Kankan was a seat of Malian kings and where you have kings, you find jalis (Malinke griots).