Bandial | |
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Banjaal | |
Native to | Senegal |
Region | south of the Casamance River |
Native speakers | 16,000 (2017)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bqj |
Glottolog | band1340 |
ELP | Bandial |
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.