Papel languages

Dialect continuum of Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and The Gambia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

Geographic
distributionThe Gambia, Senegal (esp. Casamance) and Guinea-Bissau
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Glottologmanj1250
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Papel
Geographic
distribution		The Gambia, Senegal (esp. Casamance) and Guinea-Bissau
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologmanj1250
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Classification

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

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