Kuranko language

Kuranko
Native to Sierra Leone, Guinea
Native speakers
(270,000 in Sierra Leone (2006)
55,000 in Guinea cited 1991)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Mande

    • Western Mande
      • Central–Western
        • Central Mande
          • Manding–Jogo
            • Manding–Vai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 knk
Glottolog kura1250[2]

Kuranko is a Mande language spoken by approximately 350,000 people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Guinea it blends into Eastern Maninkakan dialectologically, but the people are ethnically distinct.

References

  1. Kuranko at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kuranko". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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