班巴拉语

班巴拉语（班巴拉語：Bamanankan，西非书面字母：ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲）为马里共和国全国通用语言，於1972年形成文字。屬於尼日爾-剛果語系曼德語族的。该国80%居民通用该语。近些年来，马里政府积极推广班巴拉语；另外，鄰近的布基納法索、岡比亞、畿內亞比紹、塞拉利昂及利比里亞亦通行該語言。

書寫系統
班巴拉語現使用一種拉丁字母，有以下各個字母：
: a, b, c, d, e, ɛ, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, ɲ, o, ɔ, p, r, s, t, u, w, y, z

參考文獻
Bird, Charles, Hutchison, John & Kanté, Mamadou (1976) An Ka Bamanankan Kalan: Beginning Bambara*. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Linguistics Club.
Bird, Charles & Kanté, Mamadou (1977) Bambara-English, English-Bambara student lexicon*. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Linguistics Club.
Kastenholz, Raimund (1998) Grundkurs Bambara (Manding) mit Texten* (second revised edition) (Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Vol. 1). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
Konaré, Demba (1998) Je parle bien bamanan*. Bamako: Jamana.
Morales, José (2010) J'apprends le bambara. 61 conversations*, (book + CD-ROM). Paris: Editions Karthala. ISBN 2-8111-0433-X
Touré, Mohamed & Leucht, Melanie (1996) Bambara Lesebuch: Originaltexte mit deutscher und französischer Übersetzung = Chrestomathie Bambara: textes originaux Bambara avec traductions allemandes et françaises* (with illustrations by Melanie Leucht) (Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Vol. 11) . Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

外部連結
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121004191024/http://llmap.org/languages/bam.html Map of Bamanakan language (or Bambara) from the LL-Map Project]
*[http://multitree.org/codes/bam Information about Bamanakan language from the MultiTree Project]

描述
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160115094600/http://mali.pwnet.org/history/history_language.htm Mali – History – Language]

詞典
*Bambara entries (>2300) in the French Wiktionary
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081004120230/http://www.bambara.org/en/ Bambara-French-English dictionary] online and downloadable lexicons for language learners
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081108005847/http://www.bisharat.net/Demos/jiriwso.htm Bambara tree names (scientific name -> common name)]

學習材料
*[http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/Bambara-Intro.html Online Bambara Course from the University of Indiana- Beginner Level]
*[http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/Bambara-Intermediate.html Online Bambara Course from the University of Indiana- Intermediate Level]

• on peacecorps.gov

其他
*[http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/bam/view?searchterm=bambara=Bambara The Rosetta Project]
*[http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bambara Bambara at French Wikibooks] contains more material
*[http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/clt/php/va/Page_revue.php?ValCodeRev=MDK Mandenkan Journal]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130516204859/http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Manding PanAfriL10n page on Manding] (includes information on Bambara)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090916112516/http://www.maneno.org/bam/ Maneno in Bambara] (a blogging platform with a full Bambara interface)
*[http://globalrecordings.net/language/10 Bambara on globalrecordings.net]