Bijago language

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The Bijago language is an Atlantic Niger-Congo language spoken by the Bijagó people of Guinea-Bissau.

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instanceOf Atlantic language
Niger-Congo language
natural language
associatedReligion Christianity NERFINISHED
Islam NERFINISHED
traditional Bijagó beliefs
classificationStatus Atlantic branch of Niger-Congo
continent Africa
country Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Bijagó people NERFINISHED
family Niger-Congo language family NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Bidyogo NERFINISHED
Bijagó NERFINISHED
Bijogo NERFINISHED
Bissagos NERFINISHED
hasDialect Bubaque dialect
Canhabaque dialect
Orango dialect NERFINISHED
Uno dialect
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars and phonological studies
hasLoanwordsFrom Creole of Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
Portuguese language
hasMorphologicalFeature noun class system
prefixal noun classes
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasal vowels
prenasalized stops
hasSpeakerCommunityType island community
isMinorityLanguageIn Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 bjg
languageBranch Atlantic
languageFamily Niger-Congo NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Balanta language NERFINISHED
Mandinka language NERFINISHED
Pepel language
primaryDomain oral tradition
region Bijagós Archipelago NERFINISHED
coastal Guinea-Bissau
spokenBy Bijagó people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Guinea-Bissau NERFINISHED
subfamily Atlantic-Congo languages NERFINISHED
subgroup Atlantic languages NERFINISHED
typology mostly SVO word order
usedIn everyday communication in the Bijagós Islands
traditional rituals of the Bijagó people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Bijagós Archipelago hasLanguage Bijago language