Soninke language

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Name (Latin)
Soninke language
Other forms of name
Aswanik language
Dyakanke language
Gadyaga language
Marka language
Sarakole language
Sarakolle language
Sarawule language
Serahuli language
Silabe language
Sonike language
Sooninke language
Toubakai language
Wakore language
See Also From tracing topical name
Western Mande languages
See Also From tracing place name
Africa, West
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q36660
Library of congress: sh 85125227
Sources of Information
  • Soumare, M. Le Sooninke en Mauritanie, 1984(Sooninke)
  • Ethnologue:pp. 161, 229, etc. (Soninke (Sarakole, Sarawule, Toubakai, Wakore, Gadyaga, Serahuli, Aswanik, Silabe, Marka); Spoken in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and possibly Niger)
  • Fivaz, S. African languages, 1977:p. 21 (Soninke (Marka, Sarakole, Sarakolle, Saracole, Sarawule, Serahuli, Wakore, Gadyaga, Dyakanke, Toubakai))
  • Kastenholz, R. Sprachgeschichte im West-Mande, 1996:p. [5] (map - Western Mande languages) p. 15 ff (list of Western Mande languages [at least 25 languages including Soninke], Eastern Mande languages, Manding dialects) p. 25 ff (chart of Mande languages and their relationships; including extensive discussion of reasons for revision of classification of the Mande languages)
  • Niger-Congo langs., 1989:p. 47 (map - Mande langs, showing Western (including Soninke) and Eastern Mande languages) p. 49 ff (hist. of Mande scholarship and reasons for revision into Western and Eastern branches of Mande)
  • Biebuyck, D. African ethnonyms, 1996:p. 168 (Mande is also a linguistic division which includes the following groups: 1. Western Mande [Mande-tan]: Bamana, Dyalonke, Kyula, Gbandi, Gbundi, Hwela, Kasonke, Kono, Kuranko, Kpelle, Ligbi, Loko, Loma, Maline, Mende, Numu, Soninke, Susu, Sia, Vai)