Bayot
Native toSenegal, Guinea-Bissau
RegionZiguinchor, Cacheu
Native speakers
33,000 (2020–2022)[1]
Dialects
  • Essin
  • Kugere
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3bda
Glottologbayo1262
ELPBayot

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 border, and in the Gambia.

The Kugere and Kuxinge (Essin) dialects of Senegal and the Arame (Edamme) and Gubaare dialects of Guinea-Bissau are distinct enough to be sometimes considered different languages.

Bayot is the most divergent of the Jola languages, in the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family.

References

  1. ↑ Bayot at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon



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