班巴拉语

班巴拉语（班巴拉語：Bamanankan，西非书面字母：ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲）为马里共和国全国通用语言，於1972年形成文字。屬於尼日爾-剛果語系曼德語族的。该国80%居民通用该语。近些年来，马里政府积极推广班巴拉语；另外，鄰近的布基納法索、岡比亞、畿內亞比紹、塞拉利昂及利比里亞亦通行該語言。

書寫系統
班巴拉語現使用一種拉丁字母，有以下各個字母：
 a, b, c, d, e, ɛ, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, ɲ, o, ɔ, p, r, s, t, u, w, y, z

參考文獻

Bird, Charles, Hutchison, John & Kanté, Mamadou (1976) An Ka Bamanankan Kalan: Beginning Bambara. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Linguistics Club.
Bird, Charles & Kanté, Mamadou (1977) Bambara-English, English-Bambara student lexicon. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Linguistics Club.
Kastenholz, Raimund (1998) Grundkurs Bambara (Manding) mit Texten (second revised edition) (Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Vol. 1). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
Konaré, Demba (1998) Je parle bien bamanan. Bamako: Jamana.
Morales, José (2010) J'apprends le bambara. 61 conversations, (book + CD-ROM).  Paris: Editions Karthala. ISBN 2-8111-0433-X
Touré, Mohamed & Leucht, Melanie (1996) Bambara Lesebuch: Originaltexte mit deutscher und französischer Übersetzung = Chrestomathie Bambara: textes originaux Bambara avec traductions allemandes et françaises (with illustrations by Melanie Leucht) (Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Vol. 11) . Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

外部連結

Map of Bamanakan language (or Bambara) from the LL-Map Project
Information about Bamanakan language from the MultiTree Project 

描述
Mali – History – Language

詞典
Bambara entries (>2300) in the French Wiktionary
Bambara-French-English dictionary online and downloadable lexicons for language learners
Bambara tree names (scientific name -> common name)

學習材料
Online Bambara Course from the University of Indiana- Beginner Level 
Online Bambara Course from the University of Indiana- Intermediate Level 
 on peacecorps.gov

其他
The Rosetta Project
Bambara at French Wikibooks  contains more material
Mandenkan Journal 
PanAfriL10n page on Manding (includes information on Bambara)
Maneno in Bambara (a blogging platform with a full Bambara interface)
Bambara on globalrecordings.net 

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