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Mande
Mande may refer to: * Mandé peoples of western Africa * Mande languages, their Niger-Congo languages * Manding languages, Manding, a term covering a subgroup of Mande peoples, and sometimes used for one of them, Mandinka people, Mandinka * Garo people of northeastern India and northern Bangladesh * Mande River in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Mandé, Mali Surname * Hendrik Mande (d. 1431), Dutch mystical writer * Jerold Mande (b. 1954), American nutritionist and civil servant See also *Mand (other) *Manda (other) *Mandean (other) *Mandi (other) *Manding (other) *Mandinka (other) {{disambig, geo, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mande Languages
The Mande languages are a family of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people, chiefly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) and also in southern Mauritania, northern Ghana, northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin. The Mande languages show a few lexical similarities with the Atlantic–Congo language family, so together they have been proposed as parts of a larger Niger–Congo language family since the 1950s. However, the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology that is the primary identifying feature of the Atlantic–Congo languages. Accordingly, linguists increasingly treat Mande and Atlantic–Congo as independent language families. History Various opinions exis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandé Peoples
The Mandé peoples are a linguistic grouping of those African nations who speak Mande languages. The various Mandé-speaking nations are concentrated in the western regions of West Africa. The Mandinka or Malinke, a western Mandé nation, are credited with the founding one of the largest West African empires. Other large Mandé-speaking nations include the Soninke and Susu, as well as smaller ones such as the Ligbi, Vai, and Bissa. Mandé-speaking peoples inhabit various environments, from coastal rainforests to the sparse Sahel, and have a wide range of cuisines, cultures, and beliefs. After migrating from the Central Sahara, Mandé-speaking peoples established Tichitt culture in the Western Saharan region of Mauritania, which had Dhar Tichitt as its primary regional center and possibly the Malian Lakes Region as its secondary regional center. Subsequently, toward the end of the Mauritanian Tichitt culture, Mandé-speaking peoples began to spread and established M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerold Mande
Jerold Robert Mande (born January 20, 1954) is an American nutritionist, public policy expert, and civil servant who served as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at the US Department of Agriculture, in charge of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, from 2009 to 2011. He has held numerous other senior positions in executive branch agencies and universities. Life and education Mande earned a BS in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut in 1978 and a MPH in nutrition and epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. He completed the program for senior government managers at Harvard Kennedy School in 1989. He is married to pediatrician and health policy expert Elizabeth Drye and has two sons, Matthew and Thomas. Mande was raised in Westport, Connecticut, and lives in Hamden, Connecticut as of 2011. Career Mande began his career as a health and environmental legislative assistant to Al Gore in the US House and Senate from 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manding Languages
The Manding languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are a dialect continuum within the Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo family spoken in West Africa. Varieties of Manding are generally considered (among native speakers) to be mutually intelligible – dependent on exposure or familiarity with dialects between speakers – and spoken by 9.1 million people in the countries Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Liberia, Ivory Coast and The Gambia. Their best-known members are Mandinka language, Mandinka or Mandingo, the principal language of The Gambia; Bambara language, Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali; Maninka language, Maninka or Malinké, a major language of Guinea and Mali; and Dyula language, Jula, a trade language of Ivory Coast and western Burkina Faso. Manding is part of the larger Mande languages, Mandé family of languages. Subdivisions The Manding languages, the differences from one another and relationships among them are matter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandinka People
The Mandinka or Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. Numbering about 11 million, they are the largest subgroup of the Mandé peoples and one of the List of ethnic groups of Africa, largest ethnolinguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the Mande language family, which are a ''lingua franca'' in much of West Africa. They are predominantly Subsistence agriculture, subsistence farmers and live in rural villages. Their largest urban center is Bamako, the capital of Mali. The Mandinka are the descendants of the Mali Empire, which rose to power in the 13th century under the rule of king Sundiata Keita, who founded an empire that would go on to span a large part of West Africa. They migrated west from the Niger River in search of better agricultural lands and more opportunities for conquest. Nowadays, the Mandinka inhabit the West Sudanian savanna region extending from The Gambia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garo People
The Garo people are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group who live mostly in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, with a smaller number in neighbouring Bangladesh. They are the second-largest indigenous people in Meghalaya after the Khasi and comprise about a third of the local population. They are also found in the Mymensingh Division including Jamalpur, Sherpur, and Mymensingh districts of Bangladesh. Ethnonyms Historically, the name Garo was used for a large number of different peoples living on the southern bank of Brahmaputra River, but now refers primarily to those who call themselves A∙chik Mande (literally " hill people," from ''A∙chik'' "bite soil" and ''mande'' "people") or simply A∙chik or Mande, with the name "Garo" is now being used by outsiders as an exonym.Official Homepage of Meghalaya State of Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mande River
Mande may refer to: * Mandé peoples of western Africa * Mande languages, their Niger-Congo languages * Manding, a term covering a subgroup of Mande peoples, and sometimes used for one of them, Mandinka * Garo people of northeastern India and northern Bangladesh * Mande River in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Mandé, Mali Surname * Hendrik Mande (d. 1431), Dutch mystical writer * Jerold Mande (b. 1954), American nutritionist and civil servant See also * Mand (other) *Manda (other) *Mandean (other) * Mandi (other) *Manding (other) Manding may refer to: * Manding languages, a language-dialect continuum in West Africa * Mandinka (other) ** Mandinka language, one of the Manding languages ** Mandinka people, a West African ethnic group * The Mandé peoples who speak ... * Mandinka (other) {{disambig, geo, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Mande
Hendrik Mande (1350-60 – 1431) was a Dutch mystical writer, an early member of the Brethren of the Common Life, and an Augustinian Canon. Life Hendrik Mande was born in Dordrecht, Holland. While serving as a copyist in the court of Count Willem, he heard the preaching of Geert Groote on the Devotio Moderna, a movement seeking a return to an apostolic faith based on piety, humility, obedience, and simplicity of life. Mande became a convert and joined the Brethren of the Common Life, a group devoted to the principles of Devotio Moderna. About 1382, he moved to Deventer and then Zwolle, centers for the Brethren of the Common Life. In 1395 he joined the Congregation of Windesheim near Zwolle and became a canon, remaining there the rest of his life. Mande wrote fourteen mystical treatises, such as ''Book of Revelations'' (now lost), ''A Love Complaint'' (about the absence and inaccessibility of God ) and ''Apocalypse''. His works drew heavily on those of Hugh of Saint Victor, Hadewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandean (other)
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Mandean or Mandaean may refer to: * Mandaeism, a Gnostic religion * Mandaeans, the ethnoreligious group who follow the Gnostic religion * Mandean, the language family in West Africa known as the Mande languages See also * Mandaic (other), the variety of Aramaic and its alphabet used by the Mandaeans * Mande (other) Mande may refer to: * Mandé peoples of western Africa * Mande languages, their Niger-Congo languages * Manding languages, Manding, a term covering a subgroup of Mande peoples, and sometimes used for one of them, Mandinka people, Mandinka * Garo p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandé, Mali
Mandé is a commune in the Cercle of Kati in the Koulikoro Region of south-western Mali The commune lies to the southwest of Bamako, the Malian capital, along the left bank of the Niger River The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Nige .... It covers for an area of 730 km2 and includes the small town of Ouezzindougou, the administrative centre, and 24 villages.. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 59,352. References External links *. Communes of Koulikoro Region {{Koulikoro-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandinka (other)
Mandinka, Mandika, Mandinkha, Mandinko, or Mandingo may refer to: Media * ''Mandingo'' (novel), a bestselling novel published in 1957 * ''Mandingo'' (film), a 1975 film based on the eponymous 1957 novel * ''Mandingo (play)'', a play by Jack Kirkland * "Mandinka" (song), by Sinead O'Connor from her 1987 album ''The Lion and the Cobra'' People * Mandingo people of Sierra Leone * Mandingo Wars (1883–1898), between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo * Mandinka language, a Manding language of West Africa, belonging to the Mande subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family * Mandinka people of West Africa * Wassoulou Empire, also known as the Mandinka Empire * Madinkhaya, an eastern variant of the Syriac alphabet * Mandingo, a stereotype of African American men Other use * Mandingo fight, gladiator-like combat to the death by black slaves See also * Manding (other) * Mande (other) Mande may refer to: * Mandé peoples of western Africa * Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mand (other)
Mand may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * Mánd, a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Hungary * Mand (village), a village in Madhya Pradesh, India * Mand, Iran (other), two villages in Iran * Mand (Kech District), a town in Balochistan, Pakistan * Mand, West Virginia, United, States an unincorporated community *Mand River, a river in India People with the surname * Andreas Mand (born 1959), German writer *Mänd, an Estonian surname Other uses *Mand (psychology), B. F. Skinner's term for a verbal operant * Mand (singing style), a style of folk music in Rajasthan, India See also * * Manda (other) * Mande (other) * Mando (other) * Mandy (other) Mandy or Mandie may refer to: People * Mandy (name), a female given name and nickname * Iván Mándy (1918–1995), Hungarian writer * Mark Mandy (born 1972), Irish retired high jumper * Philip Mandie (born 1942), a former judge on the Supreme ... * Mandi (other) {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
