Bandial language

Bandial
Banjaal
Native toSenegal
Regionsouth of the Casamance River
Native speakers
16,000 (2017)[1]
Dialects
  • Bandial
  • Affiniam
  • Elun
Language codes
ISO 639-3bqj
Glottologband1340
ELPBandial

Bandial (Banjaal), or Eegima (Eegimaa), is a Jola language of the Casamance region of Senegal. The three dialects, Affiniam, Bandial proper, and Elun (Hulon, also Kuluunaay, Kujireray) are divergent, on the border between dialects and distinct languages.

  1. ^ Bandial at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon