Bangande people
Ethnic group
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The Bangande are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa.[1] They live in the Bangande valley, which cuts into the western edge of the Dogon high plateau, in eastern Mali.
| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Bangime | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dogon people |
The Bangande consider themselves to belong to the Dogon ethnicity, but other Dogon people insist they are not.[2]
Language
The language spoken by the Bangande people is Bangime, a language isolate studied by linguists Jeff Heath and Abbie Hantgan.[3] Even though Bangime is not related to the Dogon languages, the Bangande still consider their language to be Dogon.[2]
Geography
Linguist and anthropologist Roger Blench reports that Bangime, the language of the Bangande, is spoken in 7 villages east of Karge, near Bandiagara, Mopti Region, central Mali (Blench 2007).[citation needed] The villages are:
