Manjaku language

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The Manjaku language is an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo family spoken primarily by the Manjaku people in Guinea-Bissau and neighboring West African countries.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Manjaku language canonical 7
Manjack language 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Atlantic language
Niger-Congo language
natural language
alternateName Mandyak
Mandyako
linked to: Mankanya

Manjaco
belongsToMacroFamily Niger-Congo
continent Africa
ethnicGroup Manjaku people
family Niger-Congo
hasContactWith Creole Portuguese of Guinea-Bissau
Portuguese language
hasDialects several local varieties in Guinea-Bissau
hasISO639-3Code mfv
hasMorphologyFeature noun class system
hasPhonologyFeature contrastive tone
hasSpeakers tens of thousands
hasTypology mostly SVO word order
isSpokenBy Manjaku ethnic group
languageBranch Atlantic branch
languageFamily Niger-Congo language family
languageGroup Bak languages
neighboringLanguages Balanta language
Mandinka language
Papel language
primaryCountry Guinea-Bissau
region West Africa
spokenIn Guinea-Bissau
Senegal
The Gambia
West Africa
status minority language
subfamily Atlantic
usedBy Manjaku communities in urban areas of Guinea-Bissau
usedIn traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Papel language closelyRelatedTo Manjaku language
subject linked to: Papel
Jola language closelyRelatedTo Manjaku language
subject linked to: Jola
Manjaku languageSpoken Manjaku language
Manjack language Manjack language
linked to: Manjaku language
Balanta language neighboringLanguages Manjaku language
Papel language neighboringLanguage Manjaku language
Manjack people language Manjack language
linked to: Manjaku language
Jola languages closelyRelatedTo Manjaku language
subject linked to: Jola (Diola) language
Southern Atlantic languages hasMember Manjaku language