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Soninke
Soninke
Sooninkanxanne سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ
Native to	Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ghana, Burkina Faso
Region	West Africa
Ethnicity	Soninke
Native speakers	2.3 million (2017–2021)
Language family	Niger-Congo? Mande Western Northwestern Soninke–Bobo Soninke–Bozo Soninke; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin ; Arabic (Wolofal)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	snk
ISO 639-3	snk
Glottolog	soni1259
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Soninke language

Mande language spoken in West Africa

The Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne,^[2] سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ), also known as Serakhulle or Azer or Maraka,^[3] is a Mande language spoken by the Soninke people of West Africa. The language has an estimated 2.3 million speakers, primarily located in Mali and Mauritania, and also (in order of numerical importance of the communities) in Senegal, Ivory Coast, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea.^[1] It enjoys the status of a national language in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal and The Gambia.

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Soninke at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)

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"Lexicon Soninke-French-English". Archived from the original on 2008-12-30.

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Olsen, James Stuart; Meur, Charles (1996). The Peoples of Africa: an Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 532-533. ISBN 9780313279188. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

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Moussa Diagana, Ousmane (2013). Dictionnaire soninké-français (Mauritanie). Karthala.

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Gràcia; Contreras, Lluïsa; Joan Miquel (2005). El Soninké i el Mandinga. Universitat de Girona.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		⟨m⟩ m	⟨n⟩ n	⟨ñ⟩ ɲ	⟨ŋ⟩ ŋ
Stop and Affricate	voiceless	⟨p⟩ p	⟨t⟩ t	⟨c⟩ t͡ʃ	⟨k⟩ k	⟨q⟩ q
Stop and Affricate	voiced	⟨b⟩ b	⟨d⟩ d	⟨j⟩ d͡ʒ	⟨g⟩ ɡ
Fricative		⟨f⟩ f	⟨s⟩ s		⟨x⟩ x ~ χ		⟨h⟩ h
Trill			⟨r⟩ r
Approximant		⟨w⟩ w	⟨l⟩ l	⟨y⟩ j

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Close-mid	e eː		o oː
Open		a aː

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Soninke language

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Soninke
Sooninkanxanne سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ
Native to	Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ghana, Burkina Faso
Region	West Africa
Ethnicity	Soninke
Native speakers	2.3 million (2017–2021)^[1]
Language family	Niger-Congo? Mande Western Northwestern Soninke–Bobo Soninke–Bozo Soninke
Writing system	Latin Arabic (Wolofal)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`snk`
ISO 639-3	`snk`
Glottolog	`soni1259`
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