Native speakers 450,000 (2009 census) | Ethnicity Mandinka | |
ISO 639-3 Either:mwk – Kita Maninkaxkg – Kagoro | ||
Kita Maninkakan, or Central Malinke, is a Manding language spoken by close to a million people in Mali, where it is a national language.. About 10% are ethnically Fula.
The Kagoro variety is 86% lexically similar according to Ethnologue, and is being replaced by Bambara.
References
Kita Maninka language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA