The Papel languages of southern Senegal, Gambia, and northwestern Guinea-Bissau are an uncontroversial cluster of the Bak languages and form a dialect continuum. All of these names are exonyms.[1]

Classification

Doneux (1975) classifies the Manjaku (Papel) languages as follows.[2]

  • Manjaku
    • Mankañ
      • Hula
      • Woo
    • Cur
    • Central
      • Bok
        • Lund
        • Bok
        • Tsaam
        • Siärär
      • Coastal
        • Yu
        • Sis
        • Pèpèl

See also

References

  1. ^ Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  2. ^ Doneux, Jean Léonce. 1975. Lexique manjaku. (Les Langues Africaines au Sénégal, 63.) Dakar: Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar.


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papel_languages
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