Bayot is a language of southern Senegal, southwest of Ziguinchor in a group of villages near Nyassia, and in northwestern Guinea-Bissau, along the Senegalese border, and in the Gambia.
Bayot | |
---|---|
Native to | Senegal, Guinea-Bissau |
Native speakers | 19,000 (2006)[1] |
Language family | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bda |
Glottolog | bayo1262 |
ELP | Bayot |
The Kugere and Kuxinge (Essin) dialects of Senegal and the Arame (Edamme) and Gubaare dialects of Guinea-Bissau are distinct enough to be sometimes considered different languages.
Bayot is the most divergent of the Jola languages, in the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family.
Languages of Guinea-Bissau | |
---|---|
Official language | |
Non-official languages | |
Immigrant languages |
Languages of Senegal | |
---|---|
Official language | |
National languages | |
Indigenous languages | |
Immigrant languages |
| |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bak |
| ||||||
Senegambian |
| ||||||
Mel | |||||||
Rio Nunez |
| ||||||
Others |
![]() | This Guinea-Bissau-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
![]() | This Senegal-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |