Banyum language

Banyum
Bainouk, Nyun
Native to	Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
Native speakers	40,000 (2006–2013)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Atlantic Senegambian Wolof–Nyun Nyun-Buy Banyum
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `bcz` – Bainouk-Gunyaamolo `bab` – Bainouk-Gunyuño `bcb` – Bainouk-Samik (duplicate code)
Glottolog	`bain1264`^[2]

Banyum (Banyun), Nyun, or Bainouk, is a Senegambian dialect cluster of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

Spellings are Bagnoun, Banhum, Banyung and Bainuk, Banyuk; other names are Elomay ~ Elunay; for the Gunyaamolo variety Ñuñ or Nyamone, and for Gunyuño Guñuun or Samik.^[3]

See Baïnounk Gubëeher for the phonology of a closely related language, sometimes thought to be a dialect of Banyum.

References

↑ Bainouk-Gunyaamolo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Bainouk-Gunyuño at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Bainouk-Samik (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bainounk". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices

Languages of Guinea-Bissau

Official language	Portuguese

Non-official languages	Badyara Bainouk-Gunyuño Balanta-Kentohe Bassari Bayot Biafada Bijago Fula Creole Jola-Felupe Jola-Fonyi Kasanga Kobiana Mandinka Mandjak Mankanya Mansoanka Nalu Papel Soninke

Atlantic languages

Bak languages

Jola	Bayot Fonyi Banjaal Gusilay. Ejamat Kasa Kuwaataay Karon Mlomp

Other	Balanta Bayot Bijago Mandjak Mankanya Papel

Senegambian

Fula–Tenda	Basari Bedik Bapeng Biafada Fula Konyagi Lehar Ndut Noon Pajade Palor Safen Serer

Others	Baga Pokur Banyum Kasanga Kobiana Mbulungish Nalu Wolof

Mel languages

Others

Limba
Gola

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