Bijago language

Bidyogo
Bidyogo
Bijago
Native to	Guinea-Bissau
Region	Offshore Bissagos Islands
Native speakers	36,000 (2022)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Atlantic Senegambian Bak Bidyogo; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kagbaaga; Kajoko (Orango); Anhaqui (Anhaki); Kamona;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bjg
Glottolog	bijo1239
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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.^[2] 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

^ Bidyogo at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^ Feytor Pinto , Paulo. 2024. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384074386_Bilingual_education_in_the_Bissagos_islands_of_Guinea-Bissau, p. 53

[e26-1] Bidyogo at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)

[2] Feytor Pinto , Paulo. 2024. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384074386_Bilingual_education_in_the_Bissagos_islands_of_Guinea-Bissau, p. 53

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