Mande · ISO 639-3 msc
Sankaran Maninka Language
Sankaran Maninka is a Mande language spoken by about 3.3 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin and N’Ko scripts.
Where Sankaran Maninka is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Sankaran Maninka
Language family
- Mande
- Western Mande
- Manding-Kpelle
- Central Mande
- Manding-Jogo
- Manding-Vai
- Manding-Mokole
- Manding
- East Manding
- Manenkan
- Sankaran Maninka
Writing system
Latin and N’Ko scripts
Related languages
About the Sankaran Maninka language
Sankaran Maninka is spoken by about 3.3 million people, which makes it the 233rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Bhili (3.3 million) and ahead of Omani Arabic (3.2 million). It belongs to the Mande language family and, more precisely, to the Manenkan group within the Manding-Kpelle branch.
Where is Sankaran Maninka spoken?
Sankaran Maninka is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Guinea (3.3 million).
Sankaran Maninka is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sankaran Maninka is written in the Latin and N’Ko scripts. 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 Eastern Maninkakan, Bambara, Dyula, Mandinka, Western Maninkakan, Susu and 1 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 msc.
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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.