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Languages of Mali

The Linguasphere Register records 7 entries for Mali, spread across 4 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

7Register entries
4Sectors present
7Zones
0Language entries

0= AFRICA 1= AFRO-ASIAN 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN

Register entries recorded in Mali

CodeEntryLevelNote
00=MANDICZoneCovers the "Mande" grouping (part of the "Congo-Kordofanian", "new Niger-Congo" hypothesis; and part of the …
01=SONGHAICZoneCovers the Songhay+Sahaq set (part of the "Nilo-Saharan" hypothesis; and part of the "Mande+Songhai" hypothesis).
10=TAMAZICZone"Tamazic", "Berber" or Tamasheq+Qabaylith set of languages; part of "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic …
12=SEMITICZoneCovers the "Semitic" or ’Aramita + Amarinya set, part of the "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic" intercontinental …
51=ROMANICZoneCovers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
90=ATLANTICZoneCovers the "Atlantic" ("old West-Atlantic less Mel") reference area, within the "Transafrican" continental affinity.
91=VOLTAICZoneCovers the "Gur" or "Voltaic" reference area within the "Volta-Congo" affinity, within the wider "Transafrican …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.