• PEOPLE CLUSTER: SONINKE


QUICK FACTS:

People groups: 12

Population: 3,921,200

Unreached people groups: 12

UPG population: 3,921,200

Unengaged UPGs: 5

UUPG population: 637,500

Number of countries: 8


Affinity Bloc: Sub-Saharan African

Overview: The Soninke are a Mande people who descended from the Bafour of Mauritania and are closely related to the Imraguen of Mauritania. Ethnologue classifies five Mande languages as Soninke-Boso. The people groups that speak these five languages comprise the Soninke people cluster.

Peoples within this cluster: Bozo, Hain; Bozo, Sorogoye; Bozo, Tieyaxo; Soninke

Countries where they are found: Burkina Faso; Cote d’Ivoire; Gambia; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Mauritania; Senegal; United States


People groups: 12

Population: 3,921,200

Unreached people groups: 12

UPG population: 3,921,200

Unengaged UPGs: 5

UUPG population: 637,500

Number of countries: 8