I ni ce!
say it: “ee nee CHEH”
Bambara
in its own words: Bamanankan
- Speakers
- 15 million (estimate)
- Family
- Mande
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Senegal
- Script
- Latin, N’Ko
Fun fact
Bambara is written in Latin script and also in N'Ko, created in 1949 by the Guinean scholar Solomana Kanté for the Manding languages. N'Ko runs right to left.