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Mandinka

UK/manˈdɪŋkə/

Mandinka noun: a member of a particular people of West Africa.

Noun

Mandinka (plural Mandinkas or Mandinka)

  1. A member of a particular people of West Africa.

Proper noun

Mandinka

  1. The language spoken by these people, of the Mandé group of the Niger-Congo language family.

Forms of Mandinka

pluralMandinkas
pluralMandinka
alternative formMandingo

Origin of Mandinka

From Mandinka Mandinka (“someone from Mande”), from Mandiŋ (“Mande”) + -ka (“inhabitant suffix”).

Questions about Mandinka

What does Mandinka mean?
Mandinka means a member of a particular people of West Africa.
What part of speech is Mandinka?
Mandinka can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Mandinka?
Mandinka is pronounced /manˈdɪŋkə/ (UK).
What is the plural of Mandinka?
The plural of Mandinka is Mandinkas.

Words near Mandinka in the dictionary

  1. Mandingans
  2. Mandingbam
  3. Mandingo
  4. Mandingoes
  5. Mandingos
  6. Mandinka
  7. Mandinkas
  8. mandioc
  9. mandioca
  10. mandiocca
  11. Mandip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mandinka (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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