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Manding is a common name for several closely related languages in West Africa: Maninka (or Malinke), Bamana (or Bambara), Jula, Mandinka, Xasonka, etc., spoken by up to 40 million people. In this dictionary, forms of Malian Bamana and Guinean Maninka are included. The polysemy of words is represented in all details, the senses are represented hierarchically. Verbal valencies are indicated throughout and clarified by abundant illustrative examples. Numerous idiomatic expressions are given. Most of lexemes are provided with etymological information: sources of borrowing or proto-forms and their...

The Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako's oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako's oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to...

Ce tome presente le Ta: rikh Mandinka, un manuscrit redige en Arabe et en Mandinka, originaire du village de Bijini en Guinee-Bissau. Inedit jusqu'a present, le manuscrit consiste en une compilation structuree et tres originale sur le Kaabu, reunissant divers recits et chroniques focalisant les debuts mythiques et la chute de cet empire paien au milieu du 19ieme siecle. Deux versions du manuscrit et plusieurs interpretations (lectures) du Ta: rikh sont reproduites, transcrites, traduites et analysees en tenant compte de questions philologiques, historiques et anthropologiques. L'analyse...