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ʿAjamī Script in Senegambian Mandinka Communities
Islamic Africa, 2023Abstract The article discusses the rich oral and written traditions of the Mandinka communities in West Africa. Their oral traditions, which are embodied by the jali (griot) caste, have served for centuries to transmit multiple forms of knowledge between generations.
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Word as Nourishment: Mandinka Proverbs of Senegambia
Islamic Africa, 2023Abstract Using Mandinka ʿAjamī sources, the article explores the meaning, purpose, and usefulness of proverbs among the Mandinka people of Casamance, Senegal and The Gambia who speak the variety known as Western Mandinka. Proverbs are by nature vehicles for the transmission of moral, ethical, and philosophical wisdom in society.
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Frauenzusammenschlüsse der Mandinka
1995Die Mandinka, auch Mandingo genannt, sind die westlichste Gruppe der Mande-Volker; in ihrer Mythologie ist der Mande-Ursprung, also die Herleitung aus dem Malireich wichtig.1 Ihre Sprache zahlt zur Mande-Sprachfamilie, die der Niger-Kongo-Gruppe zugerechnet wird.
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Grammatical relations in Mandinka
2019In this paper, after establishing on a strictly language-internal basis the distinction between four possible syntactic positions for arguments in Mandinka predicative constructions, and analyzing alignment relationships in the coding properties of arguments, I discuss alignment in the syntactic operations and constructions likely to be relevant to the
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