Bayot
| Bayot | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Senegal , Guinea-Bissau | |
| speaker | 18,790 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bda |
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The Bayot language , also known as Baiot , Baiote, and Bayotte , is a West Atlantic language mainly found in southern Senegal , southwest of Ziguinchor in a group of villages near Nyassia , in northwest Guinea-Bissau along the Senegalese border and in Gambia is spoken.
It is a Jola language of the Bak group within the Niger-Congo language family .
Essin is a dialect subgroup of the Bayot, and has a lexical similarity of 15–18% with the varieties of Dioula .
The Bayot had a total of 18,790 speakers in 2006: 16,100 in Senegal, 2,190 in Guinea-Bissau and a few hundred in Gambia.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Lewis, M. Paul (ed.): Bayot . In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th edition . SIL International . 2009. Retrieved October 4, 2010.