Mandingo
From Mw
Introduction Mandingos or Mandinkas are part of the linguistic group of Mande speaking people. The Mande people covered a huge area of West Africa. This includes eastern Mali, Gambia River, the Pakao region of southern Senegal, northern Guinea-Bissau, major regions of Guinea and Sierra Leone, significant territory in Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, and even a border area of northwestern Nigeria
[edit] Mandingas in the Americas
[edit] Linguistic and Culture influence of Mandingas
"massa," the alleged mispronunciation by Southern slaves of "master." Massa is in fact the correct Bainouk and Cassanga ethnic group pronunciation of mansa, the famous word used so widely among the adjacent and dominant Mande peoples in northern and coastal west Africa to denote king or boss. In this new framework, the changes wrought by Mandinka, the Mande more broadly, and African culture generally on the South, are every bit as significant as the linguistic infusions of the Norman Conquest into what became English.
