Bandial language

Bandial
Bandial
Banjaal
Native to	Senegal
Region	south of the Casamance River
Native speakers	16,000 (2017)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Bak Jola Bandial; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bandial; Affiniam; Elun;
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.

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