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Malinke

 
Dictionary: Ma·lin·ke   (mə-lĭng'kē) pronunciation
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n., pl., Malinke, or -kes.
  1. A member of a Mandingo people of Senegal and Gambia.
  2. The Mandingo language of this people.

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Cluster of peoples occupying parts of Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. They speak a Mande language of the Niger-Congo family. Numbering 4.7 million, they are divided into numerous independent groups dominated by a hereditary nobility. One group, the Kangaba, has one of the world's most ancient dynasties; its rule has been virtually continuous since the 7th-century founding of the Mali empire. Most contemporary Malinke grow millet and sorghum and tend cattle. In religion they are divided among Islam and indigenous faiths.

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