Soninke language

Soninke

language, modern language

Subclass of	Mande
Native label	Sooninkanxanne
Writing system	Latin script
Ethnologue language status	5 Developing

A Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne,^[1] سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ), meŋ naŋ e Serakhulle bee Azer bee Maraka,^[2] e la Mande kɔkɔre Soninke noba naŋ yele West Africa poɔ. A kɔkɔre taa la yelbe naŋ na baŋ ta ŋa 2.3 miliyoŋ, yaga naŋ be Mali ane Mauritania poɔ, ane meŋ (in order of numerical importance of the communities) Senegal poɔ, Ivory Coast, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, ane Guinea.^[3] O dire la paaloŋ kɔkɔkaa-iri tɔna Mauritania, Mali, Senegal ane The Gambia poɔ.

Fonologyi

Sɛgebidaare

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		⟨m⟩ m	⟨n⟩ n	⟨ñ⟩ ɲ	⟨ŋ⟩ ŋ
Stop and Affricate	voiceless	⟨p⟩ p	⟨t⟩ t	⟨c⟩ t͡ʃ	⟨k⟩ k	⟨q⟩ q
	voiced	⟨b⟩ b	⟨d⟩ d	⟨j⟩ d͡ʒ	⟨g⟩ ɡ
Fricative		⟨f⟩ f	⟨s⟩ s		⟨x⟩ x ~ χ		⟨h⟩ h
Trill			⟨r⟩ r
Approximant		⟨w⟩ w	⟨l⟩ l	⟨y⟩ j

Sɛgebinyaŋene

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Close-mid	e eː		o oː
Open		a aː

^[4][5]

Sɛgebinyaŋenwogiri maŋ puli la: aa, ee, ii, oo, uu.

Sommo Yizie

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20081230214819/http://www.asawan.org/Documents/Soninke_Lexicon/lexicon/main.htm
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=MdaAdBC-_S4C
3. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/snk
4. Moussa Diagana, Ousmane (2013). Dictionnaire soninké-français (Mauritanie). Karthala.
5. Gràcia; Contreras, Lluïsa; Joan Miquel (2005). El Soninké i el Mandinga. Universitat de Girona