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Technical information about ISO 639 language code bm
The table below provides technical details for the Bambara language, designated by the bm
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Bambara is part of the Mande language family. It is widely used in Mali and is primarily written in Latin, Arabic, and N'ko scripts. It is estimated that there are more than 14 million speakers worldwide, including both first-language and additional-language speakers.
Speakers
11M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Bambara speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
bm-ML
– Bambara (Mali)
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