Papel languages

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]

Papel
Geographic distribution	The Gambia, Senegal (esp. Casamance) and Guinea-Bissau
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Bak–Bijago Bak proper Jola–Papel Papel
Subdivisions	Mankanya Mandjak Papel
Language codes
Glottolog	manj1250

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

• Proto-Manjaku reconstructions (Wiktionary)