Papel languages
| Papel | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | The Gambia, Senegal (esp. Casamance) and Guinea-Bissau |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | manj1250 |
The Papel languages of southern Senegal, Gambia, and northwestern Guinea-Bissau are an uncontroversial cluster of the Bak languages and form a dialect continuum. All of these names are exonyms.[1]
Classification
[edit]Doneux (1975) classifies the Manjaku (Papel) languages as follows.[2]
- Manjaku
- Mankañ
- Hula
- Woo
- Cur
- Central
- Bok
- Lund
- Bok
- Tsaam
- Siärär
- Coastal
- Yu
- Sis
- Pèpèl
- Bok
- Mankañ
See also
[edit]- Proto-Manjaku reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- ^ Doneux, Jean Léonce. 1975. Lexique manjaku. (Les Langues Africaines au Sénégal, 63.) Dakar: Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar.
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