Maninka (Malinke) language thread

[bkidd]

The Bambara language thread sparked my curiosity in whether a similar dictionary and language resource exists for Malinke. Does anyone know of a dictionary or other resources for learning Malinke?

Thanks,
-Brian

[Rhythm House Drums]

http://www.pcsenegal.org/download.php?file=library/jaxanke_mandinka/malinke_dictionary.pdf

[bubudi]

that is senegalese, so it may well be more like mandinka, which is different to the malinke spoken in guinea. i'll have a look through it at some stage, and would appreciate if anyone with some ability in malinke could do the same and comment on the dialect.

i put up some resources in another thread.

here they are again:

peace corps malinke manual
maninka greetings

if you're looking for bambara, wolof, susu or krio there are also threads dedicated to those languages in the cultural section.

[djembeweaver]

Hi.

I wouldn't bother with the Senegalese one - there are massive differences even between Kankan and Faranah so I'd imagine the Malinke spoken in Senegal is very different.

I've been dipping into the peace corps one (N di un samba) for the last year and it's pretty good I think. My teacher Iya Sako seems to recognise most of the things I've learned from that text, although he normally rephrases them (probably because he's from Wassolon and they say things differently there.....or maybe because the authors got things a bit wrong....)

It would be good to find a more comprehensive learning resource though.