Kuranko language

Kuranko is a Mande language spoken by approximately 350,000 Kuranko people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Guinea it blends into Eastern Maninkakan dialectologically, but the people are ethnically distinct.

Kuranko
Native toSierra Leone, Guinea
EthnicityKuranko people
Native speakers
(270,000 in Sierra Leone (2006)
55,000 in Guinea cited 1991)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Mande
    • Western Mande
      • Central–Western
        • Central Mande
          • Manding–Jogo
            • Manding–Vai
Language codes
ISO 639-3knk
Glottologkura1250

References
  1. Kuranko at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)


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