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Often misused to refer to the Mandinka people who constitute a branch of the Mandé: Mandinka peopleMandé or Manden is a large family of ethnic groups in West Africa who speak any of the many related Mande languages of the region. Various Mandé groups are found in Benin Burkina Faso Côte d’Ivoire Chad The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal and Sierra Leone.

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language
Mande languages
population place
West Africa
related
Mandinka people, Bissa people, Bambara people, Loko language, Marka people, Busa language (Mande), Soninke people, Vai people, Dan language, Susu people, Mende people, Yalunka people, Dyula people, Ligbi language, Kpelle language
religion
Sunni Islam
total population
30000000

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