Kuranko language

Mande language spoken in West Africa
Kuranko
Native toSierra Leone, Guinea
EthnicityKuranko
Native speakers
670,000 (2017–2021)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Western
      • Central–Western
        • Central
          • Manding–Jogo
            • Manding–Vai
              • Manding–Mokole
                • Mokole
                  • Kuranko
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3knk
Glottologkura1250

Kuranko is a Mande language spoken in Southwestern Africa by approximately 350,000 Kuranko people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Guinea it blends into Eastern Maninkakan dialectologically, but the people are ethnically distinct.

References

  1. ^ Kuranko at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
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