Also Known As:
Banjaal, Banjal
Dialects & Varieties
- Elun
- Affiniam
- Bandial
Recent Resources
- Language spoken in Casamance (South of Senegal) by almost 7,000 speakers.
- Northern group / West
Gújjolaay Eegimaa (G.E.), an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo phylum spoken in the Basse-Casama
Les exemples dans les tableaux ci-dessous sont transcrits avec l’alphabet du
Eegimaa.
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~7,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Bassene, Alain Christian and Denis Creissels. 2011. "Impersonal Constructions in Jóola-Banjal." In Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, edited by Andrej Malchukov and Anna Siewierska. John Benjamins.
Bibliography of Locations:
Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
Bibliography of Context:
Bassene, Alain Christian and Denis Creissels. 2011. "Impersonal Constructions in Jóola-Banjal." In Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, edited by Andrej Malchukov and Anna Siewierska. John Benjamins.