Kobiana
| Kobiana (Cobiana) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Guinea-Bissau Senegal |
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| speaker | about 600 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
kcj |
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The Kobiana is a rare language in West Africa belonging to the Niger-Congo family, spoken in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal . It is classified as an endangered language by UNESCO . Other names for the languages are Cobiana, Ubôi and Buy.
distribution
The language is only spoken by a few elderly people. The figures vary depending on the source. UNESCO gave the number for 1998 as 600 speakers, Ethnologue assumed 650 speakers in Guinée-Bissau in 2002, and Laval University counted 400 for Senegal.
The speakers in Senegal mostly adopt the much more prestigious - since it is official - language French . Some also speak Mandjak as a second language.
description
Kobiana is an East Senegal-Guinea language and belongs to the northern branch of the Atlantic languages within the Niger-Congo language family .
The closest related languages are Gunyamolo or Gunyuño and Kasanga .
literature
- WAA Wilson, "Numeration in the Languages of Guine," Africa (Journal of the International African Institute), vol. 31, n ° 4 (October 1961), pp. 372-377
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Programs UNESCO pour les langues en danger Archived copy ( Memento of the original of July 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ «Sénégal. 2. Données demolinguistiques » [1]
