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Mande

American  
[mahn-dey] / ˈmɑn deɪ /

noun

  1. a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, spoken in western Africa and including Mende, Malinke, Bambara, and Kpelle.

  2. a member of any of the peoples who speak these languages.


Mande British  
/ ˈmɑːndeɪ /

noun

  1. a group of African languages, a branch of the Niger-Congo family, spoken chiefly in Mali, Guinea, and Sierra Leone

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to this group of languages

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But Jerold Mande, a former federal food policy advisor in three administrations, worries that Kennedy's own views and biases will mean some of the solutions he's reaching for are predetermined and unsupported by the evidence.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

Jerold Mande, an adjunct professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

The man behind the technique, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, claimed to have invented photography in France in 1839.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2024

Beginning around 1235, Sundiata set about consolidating his control over the heartland of the Mande people, a region centered on the upper reaches of the Senegal and Niger Rivers.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

It was a fresh and beautiful spring morning, when Oakley and myself descended from our hack vehicle, near the little village of St Mande, and struck into the Bois de Vincennes.

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert

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