Yalunka language
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Name (Latin)
Yalunka language
Other forms of name
Dialonke language
Djallonke language
Dyalonke language
Jalonke language
Yalunke language
See Also From tracing topical name
Western Mande languages
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Guinea
Sierra Leone
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q35524
Library of congress:
sh 94005172
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Fyle, C.M. Yalonkayan namun̳ne enun̳ a siginne enun̳ a taaline, 1986.
- Ethnologue:p. 303, p. 239 (Yalunka; Djallonke; Dyalonke; Dialonke; Jalonke; Yalunke)
- Voegelin lang.:p. 221 (Yalunka=Dyalonke=Djallonke=Jalonco=Jolonke=Yalunke)
- Kastenholz, R. Sprachgeschichte im West-Mande, 1996:p. [5] (map - Western Mande languages) p. 15 ff (list of Western Mande languages [at least 25 languages including Yalunka], Eastern Mande languages, Manding dialects) p. 25 ff (chart of Mande languages and their relationships; including extensive discussion of reasons for revision of classification of the Mande languages)
- Niger-Congo langs., 1989:p. 47 (map - Mande langs, showing Western (including Yalunka) and Eastern Mande languages) p. 49 ff (hist. of Mande scholarship and reasons for revision into Western and Eastern branches of Mande)
- Biebuyck, D. African ethnonyms, 1996:p. 168 (Mande is also a linguistic division which includes the following groups: 1. Western Mande [Mande-tan]: Bamana, Dyalonke, Kyula, Gbandi, Gbundi, Hwela, Kasonke, Kono, Kuranko, Kpelle, Ligbi, Loko, Loma, Maline, Mende, Numu, Soninke, Susu, Sia, Vai)
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Wikipedia description:
Yalunka (also spelled Yalunke, Jalonke, Kjalonke, Dyalonké, Djallonké, or Dialonké) is the language of the Yalunka people of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, and Senegal in West Africa. It is in the Mande language family. Yalunka is closely related to the Susu language.
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