Guinea-Bissau Languages - Papel

Sample of another West African language - Papel!

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• Guinea-Bissau
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[0stsee]

That's so funny!

How many people speak Papel regularly?

Is it official?

Does it have a standard orthography?

Is it taught in schools?

Thanks!

[JasonPAtkins]

Like many of the ethnic languages in Guinea-Bissau, the kids of the tribe speak it at home but it isn't taught in schools. Most of the smaller languages around us have been written, but only recently by Bible translators and most of the people of that ethnicity wouldn't know the difference between their language written and written Greek.

[PeluMaad]

"..nurture the language"????

[0stsee]

I was replying to what JasonPAtkins had written.

[mimi42428]

it's a tribal language.

there are several tribes in african countries. and they all have their own tribal languages.some are official but most of the counties speak the language of the counrty that colonised them as an official language.but the tribal language are more importanat than the colonial language,and is spoken more often by evryone than the colonial language.

[mimi42428]

what are you talking about?

[0stsee]

So there seems to be no official effort to nurture the language?

That's sad.

Thanks nevertheless!