| Soninke | |
|---|---|
| Sooninkanxanneسࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ | |
| 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] |
| Dialects | |
| Latin Arabic (Ajami) N'ti script[2] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | snk |
| ISO 639-3 | snk |
| Glottolog | soni1259 |
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TheSoninke language (Soninke:Sooninkanxanne,[3]سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ), also known asSerakhulle orAzer or Maraka,[4] is aMande language spoken by theSoninke people ofWest Africa. The language has an estimated 2.3 million speakers, primarily located inMali andMauritania, and also (in order of numerical importance of the communities) inSenegal,Ivory Coast,The Gambia,Guinea-Bissau, andGuinea.[1] It enjoys the status of anational language in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal and The Gambia.
| 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 | |
| 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 | iiː | uuː | |
| Close-mid | eeː | ooː | |
| Open | aaː |
Long vowels are written double:aa,ee,ii,oo,uu.
Dialects of Soninke include theBerber-inflectedAzer dialect.
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