The Suppire–Mamara languages form the northern branch of the
Senufo language family and are mainly spoken in
Mali. They comprise five different languages, totalling approximately 750,000 speakers (Olson 1996). The Northern Senufo languages are separated from the Central Senufo languages by a small band of
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 ...
speaking people (the
Duun). To the east and west, they are also bordered mainly by Mande languages like
Bambara and
Dioula, and they have been influenced considerably by those languages in both
vocabulary and
grammar (Carlson 1994).
The Suppire–Mamara languages are:
*
Mamara (Minyanka, Mianka)
*
Nanerige (Nanergé)
*
Supyire (Suppire)
*
Sucite (Sicite, Sìcìté)
*
Shempire (Syempire)
See also
*
Senufo languages
*
Map of the Senufo language area
Footnotes
References
* Carlson, Robert (1994) ''A Grammar of Supyire''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
* Olson, James S. (1996) ''The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary.'' London: Greenwood Press.
Senufo languages
Languages of Mali
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