Soninke language

Spoken in

  • Niger - Congo languages Mande languages Northwest Mande Soninke - Bobo Soninke

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Snk

Snk

Soninke ( proper name Soninkanxaane ) is the language of Soninke and is allocated to the North West Mande languages ​​within the Niger - Congo languages ​​.

Soninke has 1.0968 million speakers, mainly along the southern border of Mauritania, Mali, Mauritania and in adjacent areas of Senegal, but also in other West African countries.

The dialectal highly fragmented language had earlier but displaced by languages ​​such as Mandinka in the West African Sahel region due to the trading activity of the Soninke the function of a common language of national importance, in recent centuries.

The sentence structure is simple, subject-predicate particle (object) verb, nominal and adjective phrases. The two aspects are determined by the verb, words are often formed using the Derivation.

Alphabet

Soninke uses a slightly modified Latin alphabet. In certain graphemes to the pronunciation in Senegal from that in Mali is different.

The Gambia Language family Lingua franca Mandinka language Grammatical aspect International Phonetic Alphabet Open front unrounded vowel Voiced bilabial stop Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant Voiced alveolar stop Close-mid front unrounded vowel Voiceless labiodental fricative Voiced velar stop Voiceless glottal fricative Voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant Voiceless velar stop Bilabial nasal Palatal nasal Velar nasal Back vowel Voiceless bilabial stop Voiceless uvular stop Voiceless alveolar fricative Voiceless alveolar stop Close back rounded vowel Voiceless uvular fricative Palatal approximant
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