Mande · ISO 639-3 emk
Eastern Maninkakan Language
Eastern Maninkakan is a Mande language spoken by about 7.1 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin, N’Ko and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Where Eastern Maninkakan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Mande
- Western Mande
- Manding-Kpelle
- Central Mande
- Manding-Jogo
- Manding-Vai
- Manding-Mokole
- Manding
- East Manding
- Manenkan
- Eastern Maninkakan
Writing system
Latin, N’Ko and Perso-Arabic scripts
Related languages
About the Eastern Maninkakan language
Eastern Maninkakan is spoken by about 7.1 million people, which makes it the 151st most spoken language in the world — just behind Santali (7.3 million) and ahead of Croatian (7.0 million). It belongs to the Mande language family and, more precisely, to the Manenkan group within the Manding-Kpelle branch.
Where is Eastern Maninkakan spoken?
Eastern Maninkakan is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Mali (3.6 million) and Guinea (3.5 million).
Share of the population that speaks Eastern Maninkakan: Mali 16% (3.6 million) and Guinea 25% (3.5 million).
Eastern Maninkakan is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Eastern Maninkakan is written in the Latin, N’Ko and Perso-Arabic scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Sankaran Maninka, Bambara, Dyula, Mandinka, Western Maninkakan, Susu and 1 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 emk.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.