Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a people of the upper Niger River valley.
- noun The Mande language of the Bambara, used as a lingua franca in Mali.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mood of syllogism, differing from barbara only in having the names of the major and minor premises transposed. The name was invented by Jodoc Trutfeder. See
bamalipton .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A language spoken in
Mali by as many as six million people. Fewer numbers of people speak or understand the language, or dialects of it, inBurkina Faso ,Côte d'Ivoire , andGambia .
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Examples
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I blog in Bambara and French about Mali, the problems of farmers, and my thoughts.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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The villagers were so surprised that they could read and write in Bambara on the Web!
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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I speak and write in Bambara, a major language in Mali.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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Q: You've not only started blogging since you joined Global Voices, but you blog in Bambara!
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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I want them to be able to access the web in Bambara too.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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I localized the platform in Bambara and opened my blog, Fasokan.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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Bambara has special type fonts [see this post] and no keyboard.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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We launched the Toujours Pas Sages (Still not wise) project on Maneno, in French and Bambara.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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He is now involved in multiple projects to promote his native language, Bambara, on the Web, and to bring more Internet access to rural Mali.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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In rural Mali, many people speak and learn to write only Bambara in elementary school.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Boukary Konaté in Mali 2009
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