Bijago or Bidyogo is the language of the Bissagos Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau. Bidyogo is the "dominant mother tongue of the archipelago population"...

The Bissagos Islands, also spelled Bijagós (Portuguese: Arquipélago dos Bijagós), are a group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean...

Bak languages are a group of typologically Atlantic languages of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau linked in 2010 to the erstwhile Atlantic isolate Bijago. Bak...

divergent Bijago language of the Bissagos Islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau: Atlantic Northern Sénégal languages: Fula–Serer; Wolof Cangin languages Bak...

The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...

over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...

Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...

The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory...

BJG may refer to: the ISO 639-3 code for Bijago language the IATA code for Bolaang Airport, Indonesia Briahna Joy Gray, an American lawyer and political...

Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. It belongs to the Bak branch of the Niger–Congo language family. The name Jola is an exonym, and may be from the Mandinka word joolaa...

Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. Williamson and Blench conclude that the Igboid languages form a "language cluster"...

The Ngbandi language is a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ngbandi proper)...

hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...

The Mande languages (Mandén, Manding; [needs IPA]) are a group of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include...

The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu...

The Senufo or Senufic languages (Senoufo in French) comprise around 15 languages spoken by the Senufo in the north of Ivory Coast, the south of Mali and...

The Gbaya languages, also known as Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka, are a family of perhaps a dozen languages spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic...

The Cross River or Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family spoken in south-easternmost Nigeria, with some speakers in south-westernmost...

of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon. The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages, the ancestor...

The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡ͡bè]) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria...

The forty or so Plateau languages are a tentative group of Benue–Congo languages spoken by 15 million people on the Jos Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa...

Bayot is a language of southern Senegal, southwest of Ziguinchor in a group of villages near Nyassia, and in northwestern Guinea-Bissau, along the Senegalese...

250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and...

The Dogon languages are a small closely related language family that is spoken by the Dogon people of Mali and may belong to the proposed Niger–Congo family...

The Atlantic–Congo languages comprise the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the...

Papel (3%), Felupe (1%), Beafada (0.7%), Bijagó (0.3%), and Nalu (0.1%), which form the ethnic African languages spoken by the population. Most Portuguese...

Senegambian languages, traditionally known as the Northern West Atlantic, or in more recent literature sometimes confusingly as the Atlantic languages, are a...

The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon...

The Adamawa /ædəˈmɑːwə/ languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon...

Trinidad and Tobago Big Nambas – V'ənen Taut Spoken in: Malakula, Vanuatu Bijago – Kangaki-Kagbaaga-Kajoko Bidyogo Spoken in: Guinea Bissau Bikol – Bikol...