Mandinka

noun

Man·​din·​ka man-ˈdiŋ-kə How to pronounce Mandinka (audio)
plural Mandinka or Mandinkas

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But in the Mandinka language of West Africa, they are known as djelis. Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024 Help is harder to come by in French, Arabic, Wolof, Mandinka, or Fula—to say nothing of smaller languages and regional and ethnic dialects spoken by many African migrants. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023 Among the highest rates of genetic sharing between research participants and Catoctin individuals were people who identified as West Africa's Wolof and Mandinka peoples or Central Africa's Kongo people. Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023 The new analysis also revealed that some of the individuals descended from the Wolof and Mandinka populations of West Africa and the Kongo people of Central Africa, per the Harvard statement. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023 But the kora was little known in Senegal outside of the minority Mandinka ethnic group before the monks of Keur Moussa Abbey started using it. Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Mandinka was in 1934

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“Mandinka.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mandinka. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.

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