The Southern Mande languages (called 'Southeastern Mande' in Kastenholz, who calls the superior Southeastern Mande node 'Eastern') are a branch of the
Mande languages spoken across Ivory Coast and into Liberia.
Member languages
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Beng
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Dan
Dan or DAN may refer to:
People
* Dan (name), including a list of people with the name
** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark
* Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa
**Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoi ...
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Gban
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Gbin
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Goo
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Guro
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Mano
Mano may refer to:
People
* Mano people, an ethnic group in Liberia
* Mano (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
* Mano (Mozambican footballer) (born 1984), real name Celso Halilo de Abdul
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* Machas with Attitude, Indian hip hop group
* Mandatory Work Activity, UK
* Married Women's Association, UK
* May Week#May Week Alternative, May Week Alternative, a Cambridge University student charity
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Tura
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Wan
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Yaure
Classification
The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000.
Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure.
There is also an extinct
Gbin language
Gbin (Gbĩ) is an extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast, neighboring but not closely related to Beng
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. Paperno classifies Gbin and Beng as two primary branches of Southern Mande.
See also
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Proto-South Mande reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
Mande languages
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