Kwatay
| Kwatay | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Casamance ( Senegal ) | |
| speaker | 5,625 (2002) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 |
cwt |
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The Kwatay (also Kuatay or Kuwaataay ) is a West Atlantic language related to the Diola , which is mainly spoken in Casamance in the south of Senegal .
It is part of the Bak languages, a subgroup of the North West Atlantic languages within the large Niger-Congo family of languages .
speaker
The Kwatay is spoken in Casamance, Diembéring, Bouyouye, Nyikine, Boucott Diola and in some coastal towns south of the mouth of the Casamance River and in Dakar .
In 2002 the nationwide census counted 5,625 speakers.
literature
- Stephen Payne, Une grammaire pratique avec phonologie et dictionnaire de kwatay (parler du village de Diémbéring, Basse Casamance, Sénégal) , Dakar, Cahiers de Recherche Linguistique, Société internationale de linguistique (SIL), 1992, 134 p.
- Stephen Payne, Kaadiksiyoneer kite kuwaataay ni kifaranse , 1995, Société Internationale de Linguistique
- Kaliiken kuwaataay , Dakar, Sénégal, SIL , 2004 (3è éd.), 91 p.
- Manuel pour lire et écrire le kwatay: pour ceux qui savent déjà lire le français , Dakar, SIL , 2004 (3è éd.), 68 p.
Individual evidence
- ↑ code générique