Bijago language

Bidyogo
Bijago
Native toGuinea-Bissau
RegionOffshore Bissagos Islands
Native speakers
36,000 (2022)
Dialects
  • Kagbaaga
  • Kajoko (Orango)
  • Anhaqui (Anhaki)
  • Kamona
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3bjg
Glottologbijo1239

Bijago or Bidyogo is the language of the Bissagos Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau. Bidyogo is the "dominant mother tongue of the archipelago population", though it is not used in schooling there, a role that has been taken on Kriol since the 1990s. There are some difficulties of grammar and intelligibility between dialects, with the Kamona dialect being unintelligible to the others.

Dialects are as follows:

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