Jahanka language

{{Short description|Manding language of Guinea Bissau and Guinea}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Jahanka

|altname=Jahanque

|states=Guinea-Bissau, Guinea

|region=Boké, Gabu

|speakers={{sigfig|147,500|2}}

|date=2017–2022

|ref=e26

|script=Arabic script

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam1=Niger–Congo

|fam2=Mande

|fam3=Western Mande

|fam4=Manding

|fam5=West Manding

|iso3=jad

|glotto=jaha1245

|glottorefname=Jahanka

}}

Jahanka is a Manding language of Guinea-Bissau and Guinea. It is partially intelligible with Mandinka. (The Jahanka of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau is a dialect of Kassonke).