Kuranko | |
States: | Sierra Leone, Guinea |
Ethnicity: | Kuranko |
Date: | 2017–2021 |
Ref: | e27 |
Script: | Latin |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam1: | Niger–Congo |
Fam2: | Mande |
Fam3: | Western |
Fam4: | Central–Western |
Fam5: | Central |
Fam6: | Manding–Jogo |
Fam7: | Manding–Vai |
Fam8: | Manding–Mokole |
Fam9: | Mokole |
Iso3: | knk |
Glotto: | kura1250 |
Glottorefname: | Kuranko |
Kuranko is a Mande language spoken in Southwestern Africa 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.