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Name: Bamanankan Type: Language Alternate Names: Bambara; Bamana; Bamanankan (autonym); Bambara (in Fulfulde; Maninka; Soninke; French); Bamanakan; Maninka-Bambara-Dyula Spoken in: Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso Number of speakers: 2,700,000 in Mali (1995). 75,000 Ganadugu (Vanderaa 1991), 41,200 Wasulu. Population total all countries: 2,772,340 (Ethnologue) Code: bam Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian) Parent Subgroup: Bamana (bmna) Child Dialects: San (bam-san) Beledugu (bam-bel) Ganadugu (bam-gan) Somono (bam-som) Wasulu; Wasuu; Wassulunka; Wassulunke (bam-was) Segou (bam-seg) Sikasso (bam-sik) Standard Bambara (bam-sta)