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Preferred term

bamBambara  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Bambara, more correctly known as Bamanankan (ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲), its designation in the language itself (literally Bamana(n) sound), is a language spoken in Mali by as many as six million people (including second language users). The Bambara language is the mother tongue of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 4,000,000 people, but serves also as a lingua franca in Mali (it is estimated that about 80% of the population speaks it as a first or second language). It is an Subject–object–verb language and has two tones.

Entry terms

  • Bambara language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • bam

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • bam

ISO 639-1 code

  • bm

ISO 639-3 code

  • bam

In other languages

  • البامبارا

    Arabic

  • bambara dili

    Azerbaijani

  • bamanakan

    Bambara

  • Bamanankan
  • বামবারা

    Bangla

  • Bambara

    Basque

  • बांबारा

    Bodo

  • bambara

    Bosnian

  • bambara

    Breton

  • Bambareg
  • бамбара

    Bulgarian

  • bambara

    Catalan

  • 班巴拉语

    Chinese

  • Bambara

    Colognian

  • bambara

    Croatian

  • Bamanankan jezik
  • bambarština

    Czech

  • Bambarština
  • bambara

    Danish

  • Bambara

    Dutch

  • Bambara lingvo

    Esperanto

  • bambara

    Estonian

  • Bambara keel
  • bambaragbe

    Ewe

  • bambara

    Faroese

  • Finnish

  • Bambaran kieli
  • bambara

    French

  • Bambara
  • Lingua bambara

    Galician

  • Bambara

    German

  • Bambara-Sprache
  • Μπαμπάρα

    Greek

  • બામ્બારા

    Gujarati

  • במבארה

    Hebrew

  • बाम्बारा

    Hindi

  • bambara

    Hungarian

  • bambara

    Icelandic

  • Bambara
  • Bambara

    Indonesian

  • Bahasa Bambara
  • bambara

    Italian

  • Lingua bambara
  • バンバラ語

    Japanese

  • ಬಂಬಾರಾ

    Kannada

  • بَمبارا

    Kashmiri

  • ភាសាបាម្បារា

    Khmer

  • 밤바라어

    Korean

  • ບາມບາຣາ

    Lao

  • bambaru

    Latvian

  • Bambaru valoda
  • bambarų

    Lithuanian

  • бамбара

    Macedonian

  • ബംബാറ

    Malayalam

  • Bambara

    Maltese

  • बाम्बारा

    Marathi

  • Bambara

    Norwegian

  • bambara

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • bambara

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • ବାମ୍ବାରା

    Odia

  • بامبارایی

    Persian

  • Lenga Bamanankan

    Piedmontese

  • bambara

    Polish

  • Język bambara
  • bambara

    Portuguese

  • Língua bambara
  • Bambara simi

    Quechua

  • bambara

    Romanian

  • bambara

    Romansh

  • Бамана

    Russian

  • бамбарийский
  • Бамбара

    Serbian

  • Bambara

    Slovak

  • bambarčina
  • bambarščina

    Slovenian

  • bambara

    Spanish

  • Idioma bambara
  • Swedish

  • Bambara
  • Bambara

    Swiss German

  • பம்பாரா

    Tamil

  • பம்பாரா மொழி
  • బంబారా

    Telugu

  • บัมบารา

    Thai

  • lea fakapamipala

    Tongan

  • Bambara

    Turkish

  • бамбара

    Ukrainian

  • Бамбара
  • بمبارا

    Urdu

  • Tiếng Bambara

    Vietnamese

  • Bambareg

    Welsh

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bam

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