Language name: | BAMBARA |
UPSID number: | 4105 |
Alternate name(s): | MANDEKAN |
Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Mande |
This language has | 35 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.432562559 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p b m f w t d n s z l rT nj S tS dZ j k g N h i e E a O o u i~ e~ E~ a~ O~ o~ u~ |
Comment: | All vowels also appear long. |
Source(s): | Bird, C., Hutchinson, J., and Kante, M. 1977. An Ka Bamanankan Kalan: Beginning Bambara. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. |