Papel
Papel is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Papel (Pepel, Papei), or Oium (Moium), is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau.
Papel is the language spoken by the Papel people, who live in the central coastal regions of Guinea-Bissau, namely the Biombo Region where it is spoken by 136,000 Bissau-Guineans. Papel speakers are estimated to be around 140,000 in total globally.
Papel has 79,000 speakers living on Bissau Island (called (b)uhlawʔ or (b)usawʔ in Papel). Dialects include Biombo (Papel: uyomʔ) in the southwest and Safim (Papel: safli) in the northeast.
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Words in Papel
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | 5a* | |
| name | fi* | |
| eye | kil* | |
| ear | was* | |
| nose | yil* | |
| tooth | 5i* | |
| tongue | remtE* | |
| hand | 5enE* | |
| blood | 5ak* | |
| bone | mo* | |
| skin | til* | |
| knee | jukulu* | |
| liver | reu* | |
| water | sup* | |
| fire | buro* | |
| sun | nu* | |
| star | wusu* | |
| stone | lak* | |
| mountain | monta5a* | |
| leaf | to* | |
| night | rim* | |
| dog | wul* | |
| fish | rik* | |
| louse | sEmE* | |
| one | loN* | |
| two | pugus* | |
| I | i* | |
| you | ni* | |
| we | nda* | |
| drink | dan* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · pape1239 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · pbo