Bambara

American  

[bahm-bahr-ah, -bahr-uh] / bɑmˈbɑr ɑ, -ˈbɑr ə /

noun

1. a Mande language that is used as a trade language in the upper Niger drainage basin in Africa.

2. a member of an agricultural, Mande-speaking people of Mali.

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Bambara British  

/ bɑːmˈbɑːrə /

noun

1. a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Mali and by the headwaters of the River Niger in Guinea

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family

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Example Sentences

Dozens of immigrants listened to proceedings on headsets with access to simultaneous translations in Wolof, Haitian Creole, Arabic, French, Fula and Bambara.

From Seattle Times

In 2019, a video of Keïta, speaking in the Bambara language and addressing IBK directly, went viral.

From BBC

Djigui - whose name means "hope" in Mali's Bambara language - said he had been called "gorilla" and "monkey" by police officers during ID checks.

From BBC

The lyrics, in Bambara and English, are about gratitude to her family; the spirit is centered and fierce.

From New York Times

Koité’s songs, with lyrics in Bambara, French and occasionally English, are built on rippling African polyrhythms, but such lilting tunes as “Baro” also feature vocal harmonies akin to California folk rock.

From Washington Post