Kita Maninka language

Kita Maninkakan
	Central Malinke
Native to	Mali
Ethnicity	Mandinka
Native speakers	449,000 (2001-2014)[1][2]
Language family	Niger–Congo Mande Western Mande ... Manding West Manding Kita Maninkakan; ; ; ; ; ;
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Mali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; mwk – Kita Maninka; xkg – Kagoro
Glottolog	kita1248[3]

Kita Maninkakan, or Central Malinke, is a Manding language spoken by close to a million people in Mali, where it is a national language. About 10% are ethnically Fula.

The Kagoro variety is 86% lexically similar according to Ethnologue, and is being replaced by Bambara.

References

"Maninkakan, Kita". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
"Kagoro". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kita–Kagoro". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[1] "Maninkakan, Kita". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-25.

[2] "Kagoro". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-25.

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kita–Kagoro". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.