- ^ Kuranko at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
| Official language | |
|---|---|
| Indigenous languages | |
| Creole languages | |
| Southeast Mande |
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| West Mande |
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| National | |
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| Other | |
| Kuranko | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Sierra Leone, Guinea |
| Ethnicity | Kuranko |
Native speakers | 670,000 (2017–2021)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | knk |
| Glottolog | kura1250 |
Kuranko is a Mande language spoken in Southwestern Africa by approximately 350,000 Kuranko people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. In Guinea it blends into Eastern Maninkakan dialectologically, but the people are ethnically distinct.