Papel language
Papel (Pepel, Papei), or Oium (Moium), is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau.
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Native to | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal |
Ethnicity | Papel people |
Native speakers | 140,000 (2006)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pbo |
Glottolog | pape1239 [2] |
Papel is the language spoken by the Papel People, who live in the central coastal regions of Guinea-Bissau, namely the Biombo Region where it is spoken by 136,000 Bissau-Guineans. Papel speakers are estimated to be around 140,000 in total globally.[3]
Papel is part of the Bak language family based in the Senegal/Guinea-Bissau region, thus it is linguistically similar to the Mankanya and Mandjak languages, members of the 'Papel languages' a language sub-family. Today, Papel, along with its linguistic neighbours uses Latin-based script.
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References
- Papel at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Papel". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Papel". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
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