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The data is quite old, so the number of speakers has probably increased drastically since then. Still, I guess that the proportions and geographical distribution should be more or less the same today.

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[–] cleanandsunny@literature.cafe 9 points 1 year ago

Cool map! And that Mandingo map is as confusing IRL, lol. In Mali, most people speak at least 2 native languages plus some French, and the dialects or languages can be completely different even 10km apart! We learned Bambara, which was a lingua franca (the irony, haha), but most people in our community spoke Ganakan and Fulakan as well.