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1,100

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Baïnounk Languages
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,100

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Senegal

Coordinates

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Location description

It is spoken in the village of Djibonker, 13km to the west of the regional capital Ziguinchor, on the road to Cape Skirring.

Government support

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Other writing systems

It is spoken in the village of Djibonker, 13km to the west of the regional capital Ziguinchor, on the road to Cape Skirring.

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Non-monolingual speakers

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"All Baïnounk varieties present strong a priori evidence for being endangered languages and have been analysed as such... it is impossible to predict the future of the languages in light of the limited information... Numbers of speakers and labels for Baïnounk varieties and assumptions on their relatedness are inconclusive and differ widely according to the source."

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Senegal

Coordinates

12.524402, -16.350798

Location description

No data

Government support

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Speakers' attitudes

Very positive

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Latin script

Other writing systems

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Other languages used

Joola Fogny, Joola Kasa, Mandinka, Wolof, French

Domains of other languages

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"The Baïnounk language area is characterised by a complex multilingual situation, and the different varieties are partly in contact with different languages. Depending on their location, rural speakers use two distinct varieties of the Atlantic language cluster Joola (Joola Fogny and Joola Kasa), sometimes additional Joola languages, and/or the Mande language Mandinka. All of them are also fluent to some extent in the national lingua franca Wolof, an Atlantic language, and many speak the official language French. In addition, a Portuguese-based Creole has left traces in the language. As a consequence, the Baïnounk communities exhibit extensive multilingualism as a systematic trait not just of individuals, but of entire speech communities... Interestingly though, speakers of Baïnounk are not generally multilingual in more than one Baïnounk variety."

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~1,000

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Most

More about speakers

"Baïnounk Gubaher is spoken by approximately 1,000 people in the village of Djibonker, just south of Ziguinchor, and by several hundred people of the diaspora communities in Dakar and Ziguinchor... The number of migrants from Djibonker and their descendants residing in Dakar has been given as around 400. Especially the first generation, who were born and raised in the village, still speak Gubaher, whereas in the subsequent generations it is often the case that the language is neither understood nor spoken."

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Senegal

Coordinates

12.531272, -16.353248

Location description

"Village of Djibonker, just south of Ziguinchor, and... diaspora communities in Dakar and Ziguinchor"

Government support

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"Village of Djibonker, just south of Ziguinchor, and... diaspora communities in Dakar and Ziguinchor"

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Joola Banjal; Joola Kujirerai; Bayot; French; Wolof

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

In Djibonker, but probably also elsewhere among Baïnounk speakers, it is normal for children to master four languages, and a repertoire of six to ten languages is nothing unusual for an adult person... French and Wolof are increasingly spoken and understood everywhere in Senegal... three of the languages spoken by the inhabitants of Djibonker are themselves only poorly described minority languages: Joola Banjal (Sagna 2008; Tendeng 2007; Bassène 2006), Joola Kujirerai (no sources found) and Bayot (Diagne 2009)."

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

500

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Southern Senegal

Coordinates

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Location description

one village in Casamance region

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other writing systems

one village in Casamance region

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. "The language of material culture in Baïnounk Gubëëher" HRELP Abstract
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  3. Baïnounk Languages
    Lüpke, Friederike, Mathieu Gueye and Moustapha Sall. 2006. "Baïnounk Languages." Online: http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/bainounk/.
    http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/bainounk/
  4. Language and identity in flux: in search of Baïnounk
    Friederike Lüpke. 2010. "Language and Identity in Flux: in Search of Baïnounk." In Journal of language contact, 3: 155-174. Online: http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/12415/1/JLC_THEMA_3_complet.pdf.
    http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/12415/1/JLC_THEMA_3_complet.pdf
  5. The Casamance as an Area of Intense Language Contact: The Case of Baïnounk Gubaher
    Alexander Cobbinah. 2010. "The Casamance As An Area of Intense Language Contact: The Case of Baïnounk Gubaher." In Journal of Language Contact, Online: http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/12415/1/JLC_THEMA_3_complet.pdf.
    http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/12415/1/JLC_THEMA_3_complet.pdf