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Name: Maninkakan, Western Type: Language Alternate Names: Western Maninkakan; Maninka (Western); Maninkakan (Western); Malinke; Maninka-Western; Maninga; Malinka; Western Malinke; Northwestern Maninka Spoken in: Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau Number of speakers: 422,000 in Senegal (2006). Population total all countries: 525,300 (Ethnologue) Code: mlq Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian) Parent Subgroup: Manding-West; Western (mdws) Child Dialects: Jahanka; Jahanque; Jahonque; Diakkanke; Diakhanke; Kyakanke (mlq-jah) Kenieba Maninka (mlq-ken) Nyoxolonkan (mlq-nyo)