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From Baaba Maal's song "Agouyadji," in the translation as supplied by the booklet in the album Baayo (my emphasis):
If you address the Senegalese, the Mandinkas will reply
Or the Bassaris, or the Halpoulars
The Kassounkes, the Manjacks or the Gnominkes
Baaba actually pronounces this word gnominke as [ɲo'miŋka].
In Guinea Bissau Creole, there's a word that I always see transcribed as nho minka, always translated as "fisherman." Somebody somewhere's got a stereotype going on, apparently.
If you address the Senegalese, the Mandinkas will reply
Or the Bassaris, or the Halpoulars
The Kassounkes, the Manjacks or the Gnominkes
Baaba actually pronounces this word gnominke as [ɲo'miŋka].
In Guinea Bissau Creole, there's a word that I always see transcribed as nho minka, always translated as "fisherman." Somebody somewhere's got a stereotype going on, apparently.