Soninke language
Soninke
| Aŋa yitaalombile | 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
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]Sɛgebidaare
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]| 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
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
Sɛgebinyaŋenwogiri maŋ puli la: aa, ee, ii, oo, uu.
Sommo Yizie
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081230214819/http://www.asawan.org/Documents/Soninke_Lexicon/lexicon/main.htm
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=MdaAdBC-_S4C
- ↑ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/snk
- ↑ Moussa Diagana, Ousmane (2013). Dictionnaire soninké-français (Mauritanie). Karthala.
- ↑ Gràcia; Contreras, Lluïsa; Joan Miquel (2005). El Soninké i el Mandinga. Universitat de Girona