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Mandinka people

Мандинка · Q819186

language area per Glottologcensus counts
110,596
Liberia, census 2008 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Mande
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Liberia: 110,596 people in the 2008 census.

Main language: Mandinka. Glottolog classifies it in the Mande family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Liberia2008 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Mandingo» · [1]
110,596

Languages and their lineage

Mandinka

  1. Mandemand1469
  2. Western Mandewest2780
  3. Manding-Kpellemand1431
  4. Central Mandecent2047
  5. Manding-Jogomand1432
  6. Manding-Vaimand1433
  7. Manding-Mokolemand1434
  8. Mandingmand1435
  9. West Mandingwest2499
  10. Mandinkamand1436

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Mende people

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Liberia, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)