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Papel (Pepel, Papei), or Oium (Moium), is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau.

Papel
Native toGuinea-Bissau, Senegal
EthnicityPapel people
Native speakers
140,000 (2006)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3pbo
Glottologpape1239

Papel is the language spoken by the Papel people, who live in the central coastal regions of Guinea-Bissau, namely the Biombo Region where it is spoken by 136,000 Bissau-Guineans. Papel speakers are estimated to be around 140,000 in total globally.[2]

Papel has 79,000 speakers living on Bissau Island (called (b)uhlawʔ or (b)usawʔ in Papel). Dialects include Biombo (Papel: uyomʔ) in the southwest and Safim (Papel: safli) in the northeast.[3]


Classification


Papel is part of the Bak language family based in the Senegal/Guinea-Bissau region, thus it is linguistically similar to the Mankanya and Mandjak languages, members of the 'Papel languages' a language sub-family. Today, Papel, along with its linguistic neighbours uses Latin-based script.

 Bak proper 

Balanta

Jola languages (Diola)

Papel languages

Bijago


References


  1. Papel at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Papel". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  3. Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Further reading






На других языках


[de] Pepel (Sprache)

Papel (oder Pepel) ist eine Sprache, die in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea und vereinzelt im Senegal, hauptsächlich in der Region Casamance, gesprochen wird.
- [en] Papel language

[fr] Papel (langue)

Le papel (ou pepel, pépel) est une langue parlée en Guinée, en Guinée-Bissau et ponctuellement au Sénégal, principalement en Casamance.



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