| 释义 |
Mande, n. and a.|ˈmɑːndeɪ|
= Mandingo n. and a.
1883R. N. Cust Sk. Mod. Lang. Afr. I. xi. 179 The Mande-nga occupy a mountainous Region... The final syllable is a Suffix, which conveys the meaning of the people themselves, while their language should properly be called Mande. Ibid. 186 The Mende are Pagans and turbulent. Care must be taken to distinguish the Mende from the Mande. Ibid. 186 They [sc. the Vei] belong to the Mande Cluster. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVII. 564/2 Delafosse divides the Mandingo group linguistically into three main sections: (1) the Mande-tamu, (2) the Mande-fu, and (3) the Mande-tã, according as they use for the numeral 10 the root tamu, tă or fu. Ibid. 565/1 The manati was the totem of the Mande group. 1930C. G. Seligman Races Afr. iii. 59 The Mandingo—more correctly the Mendi or Mande—constitute one of the most important groups of French Senegal. 1952Westermann & Bryan Lang. W. Afr. ii. 31 The Mande languages are spoken over a vast area extending from the Atlantic coast to the Black Volta. 1955P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) ix. 114 Within the area..are spoken Temne and Mande languages in Sierra Leone, [etc.]. 1968G. Jackson Let. 6 Mar. in Soledad Brother (1971) 152 The oldest language is one spoken in Africa: Mande. 1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 112 Mandingo. Mande-speaking peoples of which the Malinke are the largest. |