Diola (language)
| Diola (Jola) | ||
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Spoken in |
Senegal , Gambia and Guinea-Bissau | |
| speaker | over 3 million | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Senegal
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
dyo (Jola-Fonyi) |
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Diola (also Jola ) is the name for the language of the Diola ethnic group in Senegal , Gambia and Guinea-Bissau and belongs to the Atlantic group of the Niger-Congo language family .
In Ethnologue, Languages of the World , the Diola (there: Jola Proper ) is divided into 9 individual languages, while others see these as dialects of a language. The largest variety among them is the Jola-Fonyi with approx. 340,000 speakers in Senegal, approx. 67,000 in Gambia and approx. 6,500 in Guinea-Bissau.
All varieties of Diola together have over 3 million speakers.
annotation
The language Diola (Jola) is not to be confused with the Mande language Dioula (Jula) (see Jula (people) ), which is spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Mali.
literature
- J. David Sapir: A Grammar of Diola-Fogny . Cambridge University Press, 1965.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ISO 639-3 Identifier Documentation: Jola-Fonyi (dyo)
- ↑ Ethnologue: Senegal Languages , accessed on September 4, 2019 (English)