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The Mankanya language is spoken by approximately 70000 people in Guinea-Bissau Senegal and Gambia primarily belonging to the ethnic group of the same name. It belongs to the Bak branch of the Niger–Congo language family.The language has status as an official language in Senegal and an orthography has recently been developed for writing it. Mankanya is known as Uhula by the people themselves (the Mankanya people or Bahula).