Maninkan.
/ˈmanɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈmænɪŋkə/ Esp. in Guinea: a prestige variety of the Manding language.Maninka differs only slightly from the varieties known as Mandinka and Malinke in other areas.
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1964 Anthropol. Linguistics May 57 Malinke (Mandinka, Mandingo, Manenka, Maninka): approximately 1,200,000 speakers.
1966 Jrnl. Afr. Langs. 5 113 Maninka is spoken by approximately 1,200,000 speakers in six countries: Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Portuguese Guinea and Senegal.
1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (Amer. Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 277/2 Maninka, Malinke, or Meninka, is one of a group of widely-spoken dialects..common to almost 500,000 people in Guinea, Portuguese Guinea, Gambia, and Senegal. The usage of the Maninka scriptures is the southern dialect, spoken in the inland half of Guinea, with Kankan as its approximate centre.
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.
1994 M. Mann & V. Sanders Bibliogr. Afr. Lang. Texts 150 Maninka (Senegal, Mali, Guinée, Ivory Coast).
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