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Mande

American

[mahn-dey] / ˈmɑn deɪ /

noun

a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, spoken in western Africa and including Mende, Malinke, Bambara, and Kpelle.
a member of any of the peoples who speak these languages.

Mande British

/ ˈmɑːndeɪ /

noun

a group of African languages, a branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken chiefly in Mali, Guinea, and Sierra Leone

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adjective

of or relating to this group of languages

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Mande David Kapcheronge, a local leader, has told the BBC that the rescue teams are using rudimentary tools to dig up heaps of mud in the recovery.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

Jerold Mande, an adjunct professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

The man behind the technique, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, claimed to have invented photography in France in 1839.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

Beginning around 1235, Sundiata set about consolidating his control over the heartland of the Mande people, a region centered on the upper reaches of the Senegal and Niger Rivers.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The Carib yuli "smoke," is found in Carib and Arawak, side by side with derivatives of Mande tama, tawa, which are also in the Algonkian languages.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various

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