Native speakers 140,000 (2006) Glottolog pape1239 | Ethnicity Papel people ISO 639-3 pbo | |
Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoBak–BijagoBak properJola–PapelManjaku–PapelPapel | ||
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.
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.
References
Papel language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA