Maninka, Sankaran

MSC

vigorous

Alternate Names: Faranah, Sankarankan

Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 79% with Eastern Maninkakan ,. A member of macrolanguage Mandingo ,.

Genealogy:

Niger-Congo
Mande
Western
Central-Southwestern
Central
Manding-Jogo
Manding-Vai
Manding-Mokole
Manding
Manding-East
Southeastern Manding

Demographics: 77,000 (2006).

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Guinea

Other Comments: Muslim.