Malinke
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- proper noun
- Still further east lies Upper Guinea (Haute Guinee), the savanna-like homeland of the Malinke, who account for approximately 23 percent of the population.
- Malinke people
- Malinke ethnic group
- Malinke-Peul
Examples
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In Mali, many families speak the Malinke language at home as part of their cultural identity.
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Today, several groups including the Bozo, Bamana, Soreoho, Maraka, and Malinke regularly perform the sogobo masquerade.
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By contrast, the Peul, roughly equal to the Malinke in population, held only 11 percent of administrative positions.
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Charles found that, disproportionate to their numbers, the Malinke held power in most of Guinea's administrative units.
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Entrepreneurs have developed an alphabet and published a monolingual dictionary; more than fifty publications exist, and the Malinke language is taught in schools.
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Among Guinea's Mandeng peoples, the Malinke make the strongest cultural claims to ownership of the country.
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Particularly after 1965, the Malinke group's demands for ethnic political entitlements intensified.
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Classified as Mande peoples, the Malinke, Susu, and Forester groups share some common cultural traits, including origins and linguistic similarities.
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The Maninka (Malinke) and Bamana (Bambara) are well known for their Komo association horizontal masks.
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In a speech given in Faranah, Upper Guinea, Ba called upon the Malinke to make reparations for the abuses against the Peul during the First Republic.
Academic text (1998)
Surface Forms
Etymology
The name Malinke comes from how the people call themselves in a West African language, and it is often spelled Maninka or Mandinka. It refers to a 'people' and their 'language' mainly in Mali and nearby countries, which is why Malinke today means a member of that group or the language they speak.