Summary
Papel (Pepel, Papei), or Oium (Moium), is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau.
| Papel | |
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| Oyum | |
| Native to | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal |
| Ethnicity | Papel |
Native speakers | 160,000 (2022)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pbo |
| Glottolog | pape1239 |
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.[2]
Papel has 79,000 speakers living on Bissau Island (called (b)uhlawʔ or (b)usawʔ in Papel). Dialects include Biombo (Papel: uyomʔ) in the southwest and Safim (Papel: safli) in the northeast.[3]
Classification edit
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 edit
- ^ Papel at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ "Papel". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ^ Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Further reading edit
- Ndao, Dame (2013). Phonologie, morphologie et structures syntaxiques du Pepel (in French). Saarbrücken: Éditions universitaires européennes. ISBN 978-613-1-56804-6.
External links edit
- Basic Papel phrases and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jca7e7-z9CQ