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balafon

type of wooden xylophone originating in Mali
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balafon

Summary

balafon is a type of musical instrument[1]. balafon draws 698 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #114 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • balafon is in the country of Mali[3].
  • balafon is in the country of Burkina Faso[4].
  • balafon is in the country of Ivory Coast[5].
  • balafon's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[6].
  • balafon is a type of mallet percussion instrument[7].
  • balafon is a type of set of percussion sticks[8].
  • balafon is a type of xylophone[9].
  • balafon's Commons category is recorded as Balafon[10].
  • balafon's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 111.212[11].
  • balafon's different from is recorded as Q123056734[12].
  • balafon's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[13].
  • balafon's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[14].

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Definition and Type

balafon's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[6]. Recorded subclass of include mallet percussion instrument[7], set of percussion sticks[8], and xylophone[9].

Why It Matters

balafon draws 698 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #114 of 399).[2] balafon has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] balafon is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Burkina Faso Ivory Coast Mali

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . omeka1.grinnell.edu. omeka1.grinnell.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . omeka1.grinnell.edu. omeka1.grinnell.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . ich.unesco.org. Retrieved . ich.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Intangible cultural heritage status → Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
    Local thumb → —
    Instance of → type of musical instrument
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007282431405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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