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Bambara
Bam·ba·ra
/
bɑmˈbɑr
ɑ, -ˈbɑr
ə
/
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bahm-
bahr
-ah, -
bahr
-
uh
]
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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
(bɑːmˈbɑːrə)
—
n
,
-ra
,
-ras
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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