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

Papel
Native to	Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
Ethnicity	Papel people
Native speakers	140,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Bak–Bijago Bak proper Jola–Papel Manjaku–Papel Papel
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pbo
Glottolog	pape1239

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

Further reading

External links

• Basic Papel phrases and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jca7e7-z9CQ

На других языках

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[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.

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- [en] Papel language

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[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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