Jahanka language

Jahanka
Native to Guinea
Native speakers
30,000 (1999)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jad
Glottolog jaha1245[2]

Jahanka is a Manding language of Guinea. It is partially intelligible with Mandinka. (The Jahanka of Senegal and Bissau is a dialect of Kassonke.)

References

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


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