Mandjak language
| Mandjak | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and the Gambia |
| Ethnicity | Manjack people |
Native speakers | 310,000 (2006)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mfv |
| Glottolog |
mand1419[2] |
Mandjak (Manjack) is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.
Other spellings are Mandjaque, Mandyak, Manjaca, Manjaco, Manjaku, Manjiak, Mendyako, and Ndyak; another name is Kanyop.
Dialects are distinct enough that some might be considered separate languages. They are:
- Bok (Babok, Sarar, Teixeira Pinto, Tsaam)
- Likes-Utsia (Baraa, Kalkus)
- Cur (Churo)
- Lund
- Yu (Pecixe, Siis, Pulhilh)
- Unhate (Binhante, Bissau)
References
- ↑ Mandjak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mandjak". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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