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UKBambara
/bambˈɑːɹə/
/bæmbˈɑːɹɹə/Bambara
[NOUN]1
*** a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 15 million people, natively by 5 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users
Examples
1. My teacher and friend, Abdul Doumbia, can speak Bambara phrases on his drum, and he's even swore at me on occasion.
2. Now in West African societies, especially those that speak tonal languages, like Bambara, the sounds of the drum can convey particular semantic meaning.
3. Now the Bambara people of Mali, West Africa, say the name djembe comes from the phrase (speaking a West African language), which means everyone gather together, and that really conveys the use of the djembe drum in West African society.
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