Bandial language

Bandial
Eegima
Banjaal
Native toSenegal
Regionsouth of the Casamance River
Native speakers
16,000 (2017)
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.