🇬🇲 Country
Gambia
Gambia is home to 21 languages, spoken across West Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Banjul
Nationality
Gambian
Currency
Gambian Dalasi (GMD)
Languages
21
Independence
Feb 18, 1965
19 active
2 endangered
0 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Gambia; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
Active
Endangered
Extinct
fewer / more speakers
Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.
All languages in Gambia
Filter by name, or click any language for its dictionary.
Biafada
Endangered
Bambara
Balanta-Ganja
Fula
Jola-Fonyi
Karon
Krio
Mandjak
Mandinka
Maninkakan
Endangered
Mankanya
Mansoanka
N’ko
Pulaar
Soninke
Serahule
Serer-Sine
Wolof
Xasonga
No languages match that search.