Badyara
| Badyara | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Guinea-Bissau , Guinea , Senegal | |
| speaker | approx. 13,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
pbp |
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The language Badyara (badara, badian, badjara, badyaranke, bigola, gola, pajade, pajadinka; ISO 639-3 is pbp) is a West Atlantic language spoken by around 13,000 people in the border triangle of Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Senegal .
It belongs to the language family of the Niger-Congo languages . With the languages Bedik [tnr], Oniyan [bsc] and Wamey [cou] in Senegal and Biafada [bif] in Guinea-Bissau, it forms the subgroup of the Tenda languages.
Most of the speakers, around 6,300 live in the Guinean region of Koundara , 4,580 in the northeast of Guinea-Bissau and only 1,850 in Senegal (as of 2006). The members of the ethnic group who speak this language are known as beekeepers and also as cotton growers in their plantations.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ pbp
- ↑ (1998 NTM)
- ↑ Badyara, Badyaranke of Guinea ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ethnologue (16th)
