Kikara (

Tondi Songway Kiini Tondi Songway Kiini is a variety of Southern Songhai spoken in several villages in the area of Kikara, Mali, about 120 km west of Hombori. Westerners documented the existence of Tondi Songway Kiini in 1998. References *Jeffrey Heath J ...

: ''Kî:rá'';

Fulfulde Fula ,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (, , ; Adlam: , , ), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 30 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that st ...

: ''Kikkara'') is a small village and seat of the commune of Gandamia in the Cercle of Douentza in the Mopti Region of southern-central

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...

. The village lies on the northern slope of the Gandamia Massif (or Dyoundé Massif), an

inselberg An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, a ...

that rises 750 m above the plain. The massif extends for 60 km in an east-west direction and 10 km north to south. Bananas, cassava, papaya, tobacco, onion, lettuce, chili pepper, squash are planted in Kikara. The village has a weekly Friday market.

is the main language of the village, and

is also spoken in the region. The local surname is Maiga.

References

Populated places in Mopti Region {{Mopti-geo-stub