The Maninka grammar tradition in Souleymane Kante’s works
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The article examines a grammar of the Maninka language created by a Guinean self-taught scholar Souleymane Kante. Despite some shortcoming caused by Kante’s isolation from the western linguistics, it gives a comprehensive description of the grammatical structure of Maninka. He was the first scholar to involve the data of suprasegmental phonology to the study of a Manding language.
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Mande languages, Maninka language, history of linguistics
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школы нко // Африканский сборник 2009 / отв. ред. В. Ф. Выдрин. СПб.: МАЭ РАН, 2009. С. 289–295.
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