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covers the "Mande" grouping (part of the "Congo-Kordofanian", "new Niger-Congo" hypothesis; and part of the "Mande+Songhai" hypothesis); comprising 4 sets of languages (= 35 outer languages) spoken by communities within or around the Niger basin of West Africa: 00-A MANDINKA+ MENDE 00-B SONINKE+ SOROGAMA 00-C SEMBLA+ JUNG 00-D DAN+ SYA |