Bijago language
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Bijago or Bidyogo is the language of the Bissagos Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau. Bidyogo is the "dominant mother tongue of the archipelago population", though it is not used in schooling there, a role that has been taken on Kriol since the 1990s.[1] There are some difficulties of grammar and intelligibility between dialects, with the Kamona dialect being unintelligible to the others.
Dialects are as follows:
- Anhaki on Canhabaque (Roxa) Island
- Kagbaaga on Bubaque Island
- Kajoko on Orango and Uno Islands
- Kamona on the northern Caravela and Carache Islands
Characteristics
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Classification
Bijago is highly divergent. Sapir (1971) classified it as an isolate within the West Atlantic family. However, Segerer showed that this is primarily due to unrecognized sound changes, and that Bijago is in fact close to the Bak languages. For example, the following cognates in Bijago and Joola Kasa (a Bak language) are completely regular, but had not previously been identified:Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
| Gloss | Bijago | Joola Kasa |
|---|---|---|
| head | bu | fu-kow |
| eye | nɛ | ji-cil |
See also
- Bijogo word list (Wiktionary)
References
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