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Mandolute is just the English name given by the U.S. manufacturer Weymann to this instrument.
I know it, in French, as "un mandole" (not to be mistaken with "une mandole" which is a mandola) or "un mondole".
From online doc, it looks like "un mandoluth" seems to be common as well and has the advantage to be unambiguous.
Thus, I recommend to use "mandoluth" as primary French alias, "mandole" and "mondole" as other French aliases.
Kabyle spelling most probably is "mondol" but I am not sure about it.
Note that Wikipedia pages currently are a bit of a mess about this instrument:
- both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandole and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolute refer to this same instrument,
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandole does not link to this instrument but to the mandola (mandolin alto).