| 1 | | Reopen for "name:bm"="Esipaɲi". This is the standard name for Spain, translated in Bambara (a national language of Mali, also spoken by minorities in a large surrounding region, with ~14 million speakers in Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea). |
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| 3 | | It uses the lowercase Latin letter "ɲ" (U+0272), whose capital is "Ɲ" (U+019D). |
| 4 | | There's also the letter "ŋ/Ŋ" (U+019E/U+0273). |
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| 6 | | These two letters are part of the alphabet of Bambara, standardized in Mali since 1982: |
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| 8 | | A B C D E Ɛ F G H I J K L M N Ɲ Ŋ O Ɔ P R S T U W Y Z |
| 9 | | a b c d e ɛ f g h i j k l m n ɲ ŋ o ɔ p r s t u w y z |
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| 14 | | These two letters are also used for other Mandingue languages in the same region and written with a Latin alphabet, such as: |
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| 16 | | * Dioula [ISO 639: dyu] (spoken by ~20 millions in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana) |
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| 18 | | A B C D E Ɛ F G H I J K L M N Ɲ Ŋ O Ɔ P R S T U V W Y Z |
| 19 | | a b c d e ɛ f g h i j k l m n ɲ ŋ o ɔ p r s t u v w y z |
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| 22 | | * Mandinka [ISO 639: mnk] (spoken in Senegal and Gambia): |
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| 24 | | a b c d e f g h i j k l m n ñ ŋ o p r s t u w y |
| 25 | | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Ñ Ŋ O P R S T U W Y |
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| 27 | | * Eastern Maninkakan [ISO 639: emk] (spoken in Guinea, Mali, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire)... |
