Papel language

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[2]

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

Papel is the language spoken by the Papel People, who live in the central coastal regions of Guinea-Bissau, namely the Biombo Region were it is spoken by 136,000 Bissau-Guineans. Papel speakers are estimated to be around 140,000 in total globally.^[3]

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)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Papel". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. "Papel". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-13.

External Links

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