Native to Guinea | Ethnicity 7,900 (no date) | |
Region coastal villages of Binari and Mboteni Native speakers (undated figure of nearly extinct) Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Atlantic
Senegambian
Nalu
Baga Pokur Dialects Baga Mboteni
Baga Binari | ||
Baga Pokur is a nearly extinct Senegambian language, spoken in the coastal Rio Nuñez region of Guinea. Speakers who have gone to school or work outside of their villages are bilingual in Pokur and the Mande language Susu.
Pokur has lost the noun-class concord found in its relatives.
Classification
Despite the name, Baga Mboteni is not one of the Baga languages, though speakers are ethnically ethnically Baga. The language is instead most closely related to Nala and Mbulungish, though it shares a low percentage of cognate vocabulary with them.
References
Baga Pokur language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA