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Mandingo.

A macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.

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  1. A macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.

Where this word comes from

From Mandinka Mandinka. Compare French mandingue, from the same source.

noun
  1. A member of the Mandinka people.

  2. A black man with a large penis.

    offensive
Where this word comes from

From Mandinka Mandinka. Compare French mandingue, from the same source.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.