Bambara
Americannoun
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a Mande language that is used as a trade language in the upper Niger drainage basin in Africa.
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a member of an agricultural, Mande-speaking people of Mali.
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Mali and by the headwaters of the River Niger in Guinea
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the language of this people, belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family
Example Sentences
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He delivered the message in both the Bambara and Fulani languages, a sign that he hopes to unite the different communities in Mali.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
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 ● Apr. 16, 2024
In 2019, a video of Keïta, speaking in the Bambara language and addressing IBK directly, went viral.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2023
Oumar Ballo, a redshirt sophomore center from Mali, speaks Bambara, French, Spanish and English.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
That is, we were, but the big cache we had hoarded up in the Kuroworo Mountains in the Bambara country has been stolen by a rival trader, an Arab named Muley-Hassan.
From The Boy Aviators in Africa by Goldfrap, John Henry
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