Soninke language

A Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne, سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ), meŋ naŋ e Serakhulle bee Azer bee Maraka, e la Mande kɔkɔre Soninke noba naŋ yele West Africa poɔ. A kɔkɔre taa la yelbe naŋ na baŋ ta ŋa 2.3 miliyoŋ, yaga naŋ be Mali ane Mauritania poɔ, ane meŋ (in order of numerical importance of the communities) Senegal poɔ, Ivory Coast, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, ane Guinea. O dire la paaloŋ kɔkɔkaa-iri tɔna Mauritania, Mali, Senegal ane The Gambia poɔ.

Soninke

kɔkɔre, modern language

Aŋa yitaalombile	Mande
Native label	Sooninkanxanne
Writing system	Latin script
Ethnologue language status	5 Developing

Fonologyi

Sɛgebidaare

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		⟨m⟩ m	⟨n⟩ n	⟨ñ⟩ ɲ	⟨ŋ⟩ ŋ
Stop and Affricate	voiceless	⟨p⟩ p	⟨t⟩ t	⟨c⟩ t͡ʃ	⟨k⟩ k	⟨q⟩ q
	voiced	⟨b⟩ b	⟨d⟩ d	⟨j⟩ d͡ʒ	⟨g⟩ ɡ
Fricative		⟨f⟩ f	⟨s⟩ s		⟨x⟩ x ~ χ		⟨h⟩ h
Trill			⟨r⟩ r
Approximant		⟨w⟩ w	⟨l⟩ l	⟨y⟩ j

Sɛgebinyaŋene

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Close-mid	e eː		o oː
Open		a aː

Sɛgebinyaŋenwogiri maŋ puli la: aa, ee, ii, oo, uu.