🇬🇼 Country
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is home to 28 languages, spoken across West Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Bissau
Nationality
Bissau-Guinean
Currency
West African CFA Franc (XOF)
Languages
28
Independence
Sep 10, 1974
24 active
4 endangered
0 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Guinea-Bissau; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
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Endangered
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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 Guinea-Bissau
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Biafada
Endangered
Balanta-Kentohe
Bassari
Bainouk-Gunyuño
30K
Badyara
Bidyogo
Bayot
Endangered
Dioula
Fula
Jola-Fonyi
Jola-Felupe
Kabuverdianu
Kobiana
Kasanga
Endangered
Mandjak
Mankanya
Mansoanka
Mandinka
Nalu
Endangered
Pulaar
Pular
Papel
Soninke
Susu
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