Languages of Guinea-Bissau

The official language of Guinea-Bissau is Portuguese. ^[1]

15 relations: Balanta language, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Francophonie, French language, Fula language, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Guinea-Bissau Sign Language, Lingua franca, Mandinka language, Manjak language, National language, Official language, Papel language, Portuguese language.

Balanta language

Balanta (or Balant) is a group of two closely related Bak languages of West Africa spoken by the Balanta people.

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Community of Portuguese Language Countries

The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbreviated as CPLP), occasionally known in English as the Lusophone Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of Lusophone nations across four continents, where Portuguese is an official language, mostly of former colonies of the Portuguese Empire.

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Francophonie

Francophonie, sometimes also spelt Francophonia in English, is the quality of speaking French.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fula language

Fula Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh, also known as Fulani or Fulah (Fula: Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; Peul), is a language spoken as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stretches across some 20 countries in West and Central Africa.

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a sovereign state in West Africa.

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Guinea-Bissau Creole (native name kriol, kiriol, kriolu and Portuguis varying with dialects; crioulo da Guiné in Portuguese) is the lingua franca of Guinea Bissau.

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Guinea-Bissau Sign Language

Guinea-Bissau Sign Language is an incipient sign language evolving from the single school for the deaf in Guinea-Bissau, which was founded in Bissau in 2003.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca, also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vernacular language, or link language is a language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both native languages.

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Mandinka language

The Mandinka language (Mandi'nka kango), or Mandingo, is a Mandé language spoken by the Mandinka people of the Casamance region of Senegal, the Gambia, and northern Guinea-Bissau.

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Manjak language

Manjak or Manjack (Mandjak, Mandyak; Manjaco) or Njak is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.

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National language

A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with people and the territory they occupy.

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Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction.

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Papel language

Papel (Pepel, Papei), or Oium (Moium), is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Bissau-Guinean language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Guinea-Bissau

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