Kita Maninka language

{{Short description|Manding language of Mali}}

{{distinguish|Kagoro language (Nigeria)}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kita Maninkakan

|nativename=Central Malinke

|states=Mali

|ethnicity=Mandinka

|speakers=449,000

|date=2001-2014

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam1=Niger–Congo ?

|fam2=Mande

|fam3=Western Manding

|fam4=Manding

|fam5=West Manding

|minority={{flag|Mali}}

|lc1=mwk|ld1=Kita Maninka

|lc2=xkg|ld2=Kagoro

|glotto=kita1248

|glottorefname=Kita–Kagoro

|ELP=3250

|ELPname=Kagoro

}}

Kita Maninkakan, or Central Malinke, is a Manding language spoken by about a million people in Mali, where it is a national language. About 10% are ethnically Fula.

The Kagoro variety is 86% lexically similar according to Ethnologue, and is being replaced by Bambara.