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Malinke

Malinke is the alternative form of Maninka.

Meaning of Maninka

Proper noun

Maninka

  1. A group of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo languages. It is the mother tongue of the Malinké people.

Questions about Malinke

What is Malinke the alternative form of?
Malinke is the alternative form of Maninka.

Words near Malinke in the dictionary

  1. malingerors
  2. malingers
  3. malingery
  4. Malingre
  5. Malini
  6. Malinke
  7. malinkoite
  8. Malinois
  9. Malinoises
  10. Malinoski
  11. Malinoskis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Malinke (page history and authors); Maninka (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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