The Bangande are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa [1] . They live in the Bangande valley, which cuts into the western edge of the Dogon high plateau, in eastern Mali.
The Bangande consider themselves to belong to the Dogon ethnicity, but other Dogon people insist they are not [2] .
The language spoken by the Bangande people is Bangime, a language isolate studied by linguists Jeff Heath and Abbie Hantgan [3] . Even though Bangime is not related to the Dogon languages, the Bangande still consider their language to be Dogon [2] .
Linguist and anthropologist Roger Blench reports that Bangime, the language of the Bangande, is spoken in 7 villages east of Karge, near Bandiagara, Mopti Region, central Mali (Blench 2007).[ citation needed ] The villages are:
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