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Mande
Mande may refer to: * Mandé peoples of western Africa * Mande languages * Manding, a term covering a subgroup of Mande peoples, and sometimes used for one of them, Mandinka * Garo people of northeastern India and northern Bangladesh * Mande River in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Mandé, Mali Surname * Hendrik Mande (d. 1431), Dutch mystical writer * Jerold Mande (b. 1954), American nutritionist and civil servant See also *Mand (other) *Manda (other) Manda may refer to: Places * Kafr Manda, Arab town in the Lower Galilee * Manda Upazila, an upazila in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh * Manda, Kale, a village in Burma * Manda, Guinea, a town in the Labé Region * Manda, Jammu, India, a v ... * Mandi (other) {{disambig, geo, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mande Languages
The Mande languages are spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples and include Maninka, Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Dioula, Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are "60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people", chiefly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast, and also in northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin. The Mande languages show lexical similarities with the Atlantic–Congo language family, and the two have been classified together as a Niger–Congo language family since the 1950s. However, the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology that is the primary identifying feature of the Atlantic–Congo languages. Without the help of that feature, a demonstration of the validity of Niger–Congo will require reconstructing both Proto-Mande and Proto-Atlantic–Congo. Until that work is done, linguists have increasingly decided to treat Mande and Atlantic–Cong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandé Peoples
The Mandé peoples are ethnic groups who are speakers of Mande languages. Various Mandé speaking ethnic groups are found particularly toward the west of West Africa. The Mandé Speaking languages are divided into two primary groups: East Mandé and West Mandé. The Mandinka or Manding (Malinke, Bambara and Dioula), a western branch of the Mandé, are credited with the founding of the largest ancient West African empires. Other large Mandé speaking ethnicities include the Soninke and Susu as well as smaller ethnic groups such as the Ligbi, Vai, and Bissa. Mandé speaking people inhabit various environments, from coastal rainforests to the sparse Sahel. They have a wide range of cuisines, cultures, and beliefs, and are organized mainly by their language group. Today they are predominantly Muslim and follow a caste system. Islam has played a central role in identifying the Mandé speaking people who originate and live in the Sahel regions the Mandinka and Soninke who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerold Mande
Jerold Robert Mande (born January 20, 1954) is an American nutritionist, public policy expert, and civil servant who served as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at the US Department of Agriculture, in charge of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, from 2009 to 2011. He has held numerous other senior positions in executive branch agencies and universities. Life and education Mande earned a BS in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut in 1978 and a MPH in nutrition and epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. He completed the program for senior government managers at Harvard Kennedy School in 1989. He is married to pediatrician and health policy expert Elizabeth Drye and has two sons, Matthew and Thomas. Mande was raised in Westport, Connecticut, and lives in Hamden, Connecticut as of 2011. Career Mande began his career as a health and environmental legislative assistant to Al Gore in the US House and Senate from 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manding Languages
The Manding languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are a dialect continuum within the Mande language family spoken in West Africa. Varieties of Manding are generally considered (among native speakers) to be mutually intelligible – dependent on exposure or familiarity with dialects between speakers – and spoken by 30 to 40 million people in the countries Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and the Gambia. Their best-known members are Mandinka or Mandingo, the principal language of The Gambia; Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali; Maninka or Malinké, a major language of Guinea and Mali; and Jula, a trade language of the northern Ivory Coast and western Burkina Faso. Manding is part of the larger Mandé family of languages. Subdivisions The Manding languages, the differences from one another and relationships among them are matters that continue to be researched. In addition, the nomenclature is a mixture of indigenous terms and words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandinka People
The Mandinka or Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, the Gambia and eastern Guinea. Numbering about 11 million, they are the largest subgroup of the Mandé peoples and one of the largest ethnic-linguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the Mande language family and a ''lingua franca'' in much of West Africa. Over 99% of Mandinka adhere to Islam. They are predominantly subsistence farmers and live in rural villages. Their largest urban center is Bamako, the capital of Mali. The Mandinka are the descendants of the Mali Empire, which rose to power in the 13th century under the rule of king Sundiata Keita, who founded an empire that would go on to span a large part of West Africa. They migrated west from the Niger River in search of better agricultural lands and more opportunities for conquest. Nowadays, the Mandinka inhabit the West Sudanian savanna region extending from The Gambia and the Casamance region in Senegal to Iv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mande River
Mande may refer to: * Mandé peoples of western Africa * Mande languages * Manding, a term covering a subgroup of Mande peoples, and sometimes used for one of them, Mandinka * Garo people of northeastern India and northern Bangladesh * Mande River in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Mandé, Mali Surname * Hendrik Mande (d. 1431), Dutch mystical writer * Jerold Mande (b. 1954), American nutritionist and civil servant See also * Mand (other) *Manda (other) Manda may refer to: Places * Kafr Manda, Arab town in the Lower Galilee * Manda Upazila, an upazila in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh * Manda, Kale, a village in Burma * Manda, Guinea, a town in the Labé Region * Manda, Jammu, India, a ... * Mandi (other) {{disambig, geo, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garo People
The Garo is a Tibeto-Burman ethnic tribal group from the Indian subcontinent, living mostly in the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura, and Nagaland, and in neighbouring areas of Bangladesh, including Madhupur, Mymensingh, Haluaghat, Dhobaura, Durgapur, Kolmakanda, Jamalpur, Sherpur, Jhinaigati, Nalitabari, Gazini Hills Madhyanagar, Bakshiganj and Sribardi. Historically, the name Garo was used for wide range of inhabitants in southern bank of Brahmaputra but now refers to those who call themselves A•chik Mande (literally "hill people," from ''A•chik'' "bite soil" + ''mande'' "people") or simply A•chik or Mande and the name "Garo" is now being used by outsiders as an exonym. They are the second-largest tribe in Meghalaya after the Khasi and comprise about a third of the local population. Religion Many of the Garo community follow Christianity, with some rural pockets practising traditional animist religion known as Songsarek. It is argued that the indigen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Mande
Hendrik Mande (1350-60 – 1431) was a Dutch mystical writer, an early member of the Brethren of the Common Life, and an Augustinian Canon. Life Hendrik Mande was born in Dordrecht, Holland. While serving as a copyist in the court of Count Willem, he heard the preaching of Geert Groote on the Devotio Moderna, a movement seeking a return to an apostolic faith based on piety, humility, obedience, and simplicity of life. Mande became a convert and joined the Brethren of the Common Life, a group devoted to the principles of Devotio Moderna. About 1382, he moved to Deventer and then Zwolle, centers for the Brethren of the Common Life. In 1395 he joined the Congregation of Windesheim near Zwolle and became a canon, remaining there the rest of his life. Mande wrote fourteen mystical treatises, such as ''Book of Revelations'' (now lost), ''A Love Complaint'' (about the absence and inaccessibility of God ) and ''Apocalypse''. His works drew heavily on those of Hugh of Saint Victor, Hadewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandé, Mali
Mandé is a commune in the Cercle of Kati in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali. The commune lies to the southwest of Bamako, the Malian capital, along the left bank of the Niger River The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through .... It covers for an area of 730 km2 and includes the small town of Ouezzindougou, the administrative centre, and 24 villages.. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 59,352. References External links *. Communes of Koulikoro Region {{Koulikoro-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mand (other)
Mand may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * Mánd, a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Hungary * Mand (village), a village in Madhya Pradesh, India * Mand, Iran (other), two villages in Iran * Mand (Kech District), a town in Balochistan, Pakistan * Mand, West Virginia, United, States an unincorporated community *Mand River, a river in India People with the surname * Andreas Mand (born 1959), German writer * Mänd, an Estonian surname Other uses *Mand (psychology), B. F. Skinner's term for a verbal operant *Mand (singing style), a style of folk music in Rajasthan, India See also * * Manda (other) Manda may refer to: Places * Kafr Manda, Arab town in the Lower Galilee * Manda Upazila, an upazila in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh * Manda, Kale, a village in Burma * Manda, Guinea, a town in the Labé Region * Manda, Jammu, India, a ... * Mande (other) * Mando (other) * Mandy (other) {{disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manda (other)
Manda may refer to: Places * Kafr Manda, Arab town in the Lower Galilee * Manda Upazila, an upazila in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh * Manda, Kale, a village in Burma * Manda, Guinea, a town in the Labé Region * Manda, Jammu, India, a village * Manda (zamindari), an erstwhile feudal estate in India, near Allahabad * Manda (Tanzanian ward), an administrative ward in Dodoma Region, Tanzania * Manda, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States * Manda National Park, Chad * Manda Island, Lamu Archipelago, Kenya People * Manda people, an ethnic and linguistic group in southern Tanzania * Manda (name), a list of people with the given name or surname Fictional characters * Manda Best, in the soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Manda (kaiju), a dragon-based kaiju that appears in Japanese monster films * Manda, a giant snake in the ''Naruto'' manga series Other uses * ''Manda'' (beetle), a genus of insects in the family Staphylinidae * Beth manda, a place of worship for follower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandi (other)
Mandi may refer to: Places * Mandı, Azerbaijan India * Mandi, Jammu and Kashmir, a town on the Mandi River in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir * Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, a city in Himachal Pradesh ** Mandi State, former princely state ** Mandi (Lok Sabha constituency) ** Mandi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ** Mandi district, a district in Himachal Pradesh * Mandi, Jalandhar, a village in Punjab * Mandi, Uttar Pradesh, a village in Uttar Pradesh * Mandi Dabwali, a city in Sirsa district, Haryana * Mandi Gobindgarh, a town in Punjab * Mandi, Phagi, village in Jaipur district, Rajasthan Pakistan * Mandi, Mirpur, a village in Azad Kashmir * Mandi Bahauddin, a town in Punjab * Mandi Bahauddin District, a district in Punjab * Heera Mandi, a district of Lahore People * Aïssa Mandi (born 1991), Algerian footballer * Armando Sosa Peña (born 1989), known as Mandi, Spanish football midfielder * Gyula Mándi (1899–1969), Hungarian Olympic footballer and manager * Imre Mándi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
