Bambara, also known as Bamana, and Bamanankan by speakers of the language, is a language spoken in Mali, and to a lesser extent Burkina Faso, Senegal by as many as six million people ( including second language users ).

The Bambara language is the language of people 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 percent of the population speak it as a first or second language ).

Bambara is classified as part of the larger, very broad Mandé group.

This oral literature is mainly tradited by the " Griots " ( Jɛliw in Bambara ) who are a mixture of storytellers, praise singers and human history books who have studied the trade of singing and reciting for many years.

Bambara is spoken throughout Mali as a lingua franca.

The language is most widely spoken in the areas east, south, and northeast of Bamako, where native speakers and / or those that identify as members of the Bambara ethnic group are most densely populated.

N ' ko and the Arabic script are still in use for Bambara, although the Latin script is much more common.

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It is one of the Manding languages, and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually intelligible with Bambara as well as Malinke.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.

A split in the Coulibaly dynasty in Ségou led to the establishment of a second Bambara state, the kingdom of Kaarta, in what is now western Mali, in 1753.

* Niani, capital of the Mali Empire, is sacked by the Bambara of the emerging Segou Empire.

The Gyil's design is similar to the Balaba or Balafon used by the Mande-speaking Bambara, Dyula and Sosso peoples further west in southern Mali and western Burkina Faso, a region that shares many musical traditions with those of northern Côte d ' Ivoire and Ghana.

Carlson ( 1994: 2 ) notes that ‘ it is probable that several grammatical constructions are calques on the corresponding Bambara constructions ’.

Bartender Ethan Moore told The Salt Lake Tribune in 2004 that it is " one of the most popular holiday drinks " at Bambara.

The population ( 2002 ) is about 10, 000 consisting of the Serer, Wolof, Fula, Bambara and Jola ) ethnic groups.

The Gullah language is based on English, with strong influences from West and Central African languages such as Mandinka, Wolof, Bambara, Fula, Mende, Vai, Akan, Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kongo, Umbundu and Kimbundu.

In the Bambara language, " djé " is the verb for " gather " and " bé " translates as " peace ".

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Other vernacular names include Nimm ( Punjabi ), Vembu ( Tamil ), Arya Veppu ( Malayalam ), Azad Dirakht ( Persian ), Nimba, Arishta, Picumarda ( Sanskrit, Oriya ), Limdo ( Gujarati language ) Kadu-Limba ( Marathi ), Dongoyaro ( in some Nigerian languages ), Margosa, Neem ( نيم ) ( Arabic ), Nimtree, Vepu ( వ ే ప ు), Vempu ( வ ே ம ் ப ு), Vepa ( వ ే ప ) ( Telugu ), Bevu ( ಕಹ ಿ ಬ ೇ ವ ು ( Kannada ), Kodu nimb ( Konkani ), ක ො හ ො ඹ ( Kohomba, Sinhala ), Tamar ( Burmese ), sầu đâu, xoan Ấn Độ ( Vietnamese ), ស ្ ដ ៅ ( Sdao, Khmer ), สะเดา ( Sadao, Thai ), אזדרכת ( Hebrew ), " Maliyirinin " ( Bambara language ) and Paraiso ( Spanish ).

* Bambara language ( ISO 639 alpha-2 code ) ( bm )

They are considered to be amongst the largest Mandé ethnic groups, and are the dominant Mandé group in Mali, with 80 % of the population speaking the Bambara language, regardless of ethnicity.

The Bambara language, mutually intelligible with the Manding and Diola languages, has become the principal inter-ethnic language in Mali and one of the official languages of the state alongside French.

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Their best-known members are Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali ; Mandinka, the main language of Gambia ; Maninka or Malinké, a major language of Guinea ; and Dyula, a trade language of the northern Ivory Coast and western Burkina Faso.

The xalam is commonly played in Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Northern Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Western Sahara ; it is also known in other languages as bappe, diassare, hoddu ( Pulaar ), koliko ( Gurunsi ), kologo ( Frafra ), komsa, kontigi ( Hausa ), koni, konting ( Mandinka ), molo ( Songhay / Zarma ), ndere, ngoni ( Bambara ), and tidinit ( Hassaniyya Arabic ).

While dialects of the western group usually have 10 vowels ( 5 oral and 5 long / nasal ), the eastern group, typified by Bambara, has 14 vowels ( 7 oral and 7 nasal ):

Comparison of the four major styles of The Chi Wara / Chiwara / Chi-Wara mask of the Bambara people of Mali.

Thus the Bougouni / Southern region style are an amalgam of several animal motifs combined in the same work, in an abstract style ; the Bamako / Northern region style is usually of the horizontal style ; the Segu / Northern region style ( the heartland of the Bambara Empire ) matches the vertical style with the unique " cut out " triangular body motif of the males.

Bambara culture has traditionally had a strict set of age and caste cofraternities ( ton / jo / jow ), and the chi wara ton society is one of the more important.

Descendants of the Fula and Malinké Khasso kingdoms, they speak the Khassonke / Xaasongaxango language, a Manding language similar to Bambara.

Following the collapse of the Songhai Empire, a number of smaller states arose across West Africa, including the Bambara Empire of Ségou, the lesser Bambara kingdom of Kaarta, the Fula / Malinké kingdom of Khasso ( in present-day Mali's Kayes Region ), and the Kénédougou Empire of Sikasso.

The upper and lower case are used in the orthographies of some African languages ( e. g. Bambara and Fula in Mali ), and in certain Russian and Native American / First Nations languages ( e. g. Nenets in Siberia, and Inuit in North America ).

These regions are also usually considered to be the historical geographical origin of Bambara people, particularly Segou, Sikasso, after diverging from other Manding groups.

* The Mandé peoples who speak Manding languages: Mandinka, Malinké, Bambara, and Dyula

* Bambara – Dyula ( Northeastern Manding ; Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast )

It belongs to the Manding branch of Mandé, and is thus fairly similar to Bambara and Maninka or Malinké.

Beginning as a Latin Jazz band in the style of Congolese Soukous, it soon began integrating local Manding musical styles and traditions, with vocals in the Bambara language.

Many words have been borrowed from the Mande languages Bambara and Jula.

A second strategy is the correlative-clause strategy used by Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages, as well as Bambara.

The Mande languages are spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé people and include Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Dioula, Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai.

The ancient languages of the Gnawa People are: Bambara, Ga, Akan, Wolof, Tamahaq, Tamasheq, Chree etc.

Common languages of the area include Bambara, Dogon, Songhai, Bozo, Fulani and Tamashek.

To the east and west, they are also bordered mainly by Mande languages like Bambara and Dioula, and they have been influenced considerably by those languages in both vocabulary and grammar ( Carlson 1994 ).

They are often referred to as cooters, which stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves.

In Dogon cosmology, Dogon constitutes six of the twelve languages of the world ( the others being Fulfulde, Mooré, Bambara, Bozo, and Tamasheq ).