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 where it is spoken by 136,000 Bissau-Guineans. Papel speakers are estimated to be around 140,000 in total globally.[2]
Papel has 79,000 speakers living on Bissau Island (called (b)uhlawʔ or (b)usawʔ in Papel). Dialects include Biombo (Papel: uyomʔ) in the southwest and Safim (Papel: safli) in the northeast.[3]
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Classification
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.
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References
Further reading
- Ndao, Dame (2013). Phonologie, morphologie et structures syntaxiques du Pepel (in French). Saarbrücken: Éditions universitaires européennes. ISBN 978-613-1-56804-6.
External links
- Basic Papel phrases and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jca7e7-z9CQ