Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 mfv
Mandjak Language Manjak
Mandjak is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 310,000 people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Mandjak is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Mandjak
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- North-Central Atlantic
- Central Atlantic
- Bak
- Joola-Manjaku
- Manjaku-Mankanya-Pepel
- Cur-Bok-Cotier
- Mandjak
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Mandjak language
Mandjak (Manjak) is spoken by about 310,000 people, which makes it the 512th most spoken language in the world — just behind Karachay-Balkar (310,400) and ahead of Moksha (300,000). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Cur-Bok-Cotier group within the Central Atlantic branch.
Where is Mandjak spoken?
Mandjak is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Guinea-Bissau (310,000) and Senegal (145,125).
Share of the population that speaks Mandjak: Guinea-Bissau 15% (310,000) and Senegal 0.8% (145,125).
Mandjak is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Senegal.
Writing system and status
Mandjak is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Mankanya, Jola-Fonyi and Balanta-Ganja.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mfv.
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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.