Bambara is a Manding language spoken by around 14 million people, primarily in Mali (where it serves as the lingua franca alongside French) and parts of Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire. The Malian-American community is concentrated in the Bronx, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Newark, with strong representation in retail and the African-immigrant business sector. Our Bambara translation work is mostly USCIS asylum and family-court paperwork, alongside the healthcare-intake and school-enrolment translation that accompanies recent refugee resettlement. Bambara is written in the Latin alphabet with several special characters for tonal marking.