Mandingo
Alternative name(s): Malinke, Mandinka
Language family: Niger-Kordofic
Language group: Mande
Geographical use: Gambia, Guinea (in the plains of the Upper Niger), east of Guinee-Bissau, the northwest of the Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Chad, Liberia and in Sierra Leone
Information: There are around 3 million speakers.