Cobiana (language)

The cobiana is a rare language of West Africa, spoken in Guinea-Bissau and with the Senegal.

It belongs to the languages in danger identified by UNESCO.

Other names

Kobiana, Ubôi, Buy

Population

A few hundreds of elderly would still speak it. The figures vary according to the sources. UNESCO advances 600 speakers in very for 1998, Ethnologue proposes 650 speakers in Guinea-Bissau in 2002 and the University of Laval counts only 400 of them.

These speakers often know the Manjaque, but the reciprocal one is not true. They are animists.

Description

It is a sénégalo-Guinean Langue, therefore attached to the northern branch of the Atlantic Langues, subcategory of the nigéro-Congolese Langues,

The closest languages are the baïnouk and the Kasanga.

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