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Papel language

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Native to
  
Guinea-Bissau, Senegal

Native speakers
  
140,000 (2006)

Glottolog
  
pape1239

Ethnicity
  
Papel people

ISO 639-3
  
pbo

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Bak–Bijago Bak proper Jola–Papel Manjaku–Papel Papel

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