Bidyogo

Bijago
Spoken in	Guinea-Bissau (Offshore Bissagos Islands )
speaker	approx. 30,000
Linguistic ; classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Bidyogo ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bjg

The Bijago or Bidyogo is the language of the Bissagos Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau . It is spoken by the Bijagos ethnic group .

The grammar is very complex and there are difficulties with understanding between the dialects. The Kamona dialect of the islands of Caravela and Carache is almost incomprehensible to the others.

The Bijago is classified as an isolated language within the West Atlantic languages . In addition, the Bijago is viewed as an independent group of the Atlantic-Congo languages within the Niger-Congo language family .

Characteristics

The Kajko dialect of Bijago is one of the few language varieties in the world known to use a linguolabial consonant , the definite stop [d̼] , in its basic phonetic system .

literature

Olson, Kenneth S., D. William Reiman, Fernando Sabio & Filipe Alberto da Silva. In press. The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 45 (1).
Segerer, Guillaume. La langue bijogo. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1997.
Segerer, Guillaume. Lʼorigine des Bijogo: hypothèses de linguiste. In Gaillard, Gérald (Ed), Migrations anciennes et peuplement actuel des Côtes guinéennes, Paris: LʼHarmattan, 2000, pages 183-191
Segerer, Guillaume. La langue bijogo de Bubaque (Guinée Bissau). Louvain, Paris: Editions Peeters, 2002. P. 310 ff

Individual evidence

↑ William André Auquier Wilson: Guinea Languages of the Atlantic Group. Description and internal classification. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-55170-7 ; and R. Blench: Archeology, language, and the African past. Rowman Altamira, Lanham 2006, ISBN 0759104662 , p. 116; and Bidyogo. A language of Guinea-Bissau.
↑ Olson, Kenneth S., D. William Reiman, Fernando Sabio & Filipe Alberto da Silva. In press. The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 45 (1).

[1] William André Auquier Wilson: Guinea Languages of the Atlantic Group. Description and internal classification. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-55170-7 ; and R. Blench: Archeology, language, and the African past. Rowman Altamira, Lanham 2006, ISBN 0759104662 , p. 116; and Bidyogo. A language of Guinea-Bissau.

[2] Olson, Kenneth S., D. William Reiman, Fernando Sabio & Filipe Alberto da Silva. In press. The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 45 (1).