Talk:Bambara people

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Bambara, the real name is Bamanankan or Bamanan language. The language is not SVO as such but rather SOV for direct object and SVO for indirect object. Youssouf

I ye tinye fo. Olu ye "Bamananw" de ye, ani u be "Bamanankan" fo. However there is a lot of discussion along the lines of whether we should use the language's own name, such as in the case of Europe, Deutsch, Français, Nederlands, Italiano, and many names I don't master. I think it's okay to call the people and the language Bambara in English, but certainly in the Wikipedia editions in Bambara (and other Manding languages) one would naturally use terms based on Bamanan.A12n 16:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging "Bamanan tribe" into this article

Yes. It's the same subject. And the term "tribe" is considered in many circles to be inappropriate anyway.A12n 16:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] merge

I merged in content from Bamana tribe -- note that this material is unreferenced and needs to be checked and re-written. phoebe 05:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] some cleanup January 2008

More is needed. The "Bambara Tribe" merge from 2006 still hasn't been edited for content or style, and so most of what's there is a mess, and much important isn't there at all: things like social/caste structure, relations to other Mande peoples (growing in part out of the creation of the Bamana state and their resistance to Islam). If you can edit, and you got a minute, please do.T L Miles (talk) 17:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)