The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.)
Soninke is a language of Mali. Roughly 6% of the population there speak it as a first language.
Soninke is spoken by just over a million people in West Africa, over half of them in Mali. The remainder, in descending order of number of speakers, are in north-east Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, south-central Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau.
Soninke is a national language of Senegal and of Mali.
