Biafada (language)
| Biafada | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
 Guinea-Bissau
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| speaker | 44,900 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bif |
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The language Biafada jezik (ISO 639-3 is bif; also beafada, bedfola, biafar, bidyola, dfola and fada) is a West Atlantic language spoken by the 44,900 inhabitants of Guinea-Bissau by the people of the Biafada , a subgroup of the Tenda.
The language belongs to the Niger-Congo language family and is closely related to Badyara [pbp], with which it forms the group of Tenda languages within the West Atlantic languages.