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Language code: snk

Technical information about ISO 639 language code snk

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The table below provides technical details for the Soninke language, designated by the snk code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

snk

Name

Soninke

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western SoninkeCentral SoninkeEastern Soninke
Related languages
BambaraMandinkaDyulaKhassonkeSusu
Key facts
Believed to have been the prestige language of the medieval Ghana (Wagadou) EmpireWritten in both a Latin‐based orthography and an Arabic Ajami scriptDistinguishes vowel length and nasalisation phonemically, yielding minimal pairsHas a two-level tonal system, though tones are usually not writtenMaintained by large diaspora networks that span West Africa and Europe.
Sample phrase

Héere, tananté?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Soninke language, identified by the code snk, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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