Minyanka language

Minyanka (also known as Mamara, Miniyanka, Minya, Mianka, Minianka, or Tupiire) is a northern Senufo language spoken by about 750,000 people in southeastern Mali. It is closely related to Supyire. Minyanka is one of the national languages of Mali.

Minyaka

Mali

740,000 (2000)^[1]

Niger–Congo?

Atlantic–Congo
- Senufo
  - Suppire–Mamara
    - Minyaka

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A pharyngeal fricative [ʕ] is also typically heard when in between vowels, or as an allophone of /ɡ/ when in intervocalic position.

Glottal sounds [h, ɦ] are only heard in the Bla dialect, instead of labio-velar sounds /k͡p, ɡ͡b, ŋ͡m/.

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Sounds /k, ɡ/ can also be heard as fricatives [x, ɣ] when in intervocalic positions.

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Senufo language

Dombrowsky-Hahn, Klaudia (ed. by Miehe, Gudrun; Reineke, Brigitte; Roncador, Manfred von) (1999) Phénomènes de contact entre les langues Minyanka et Bambara (Sud du Mali). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Prost, André (1964) Contributrion à l'étude des langues Voltaiques. Dakar: Institut Francophone de l'Afrique Noire.

to view online or download, from the Association for the Promotion of the Mamara language, Koutiala, Mali.

Minyanka-French-Bambara-English Dictionary

from SIL Mali

Minyanka language

Minyaka

Native to

Native speakers

Language family

ISO 639-3

Glottolog

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Senufo language

Minyanka-French-Bambara-English Dictionary

Resources in Mamara

PanAfrican L10n page on Suppire/Minianka