The Republic of Guinea is a multilingual country, with over 40 languages spoken. The official language is French, which was inherited from colonial rule...

languages spoken in the country. In 2006, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832 living languages (languages...

Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to...

process in Guinea-Bissau. Native languages include Balanta, Fula, Mandjak, Mandinka, Jola, and Papel. The number of speakers of these languages are indicated...

Guinea (/ˈɡɪni/ GHIN-ee), officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic...

Linguistically, Papuans speak languages from the many families of non-Austronesian languages that are found only on New Guinea and neighboring islands, as...

African language spoken by around 1 million people, most of them in Equatorial Guinea, and northern Gabon, where it is the dominant Bantu language; Fang...

Portugal) and African languages (through the migration of speakers of native African languages to the main urban centres of Guinea-Bissau, where the creole...

Border or Upper Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal. Unlike the neighboring...

The North New Guinea languages of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia form a possible linkage of Western Oceanic languages. They have been in heavy contact...

of the number of languages by country and dependency according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages...

The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...

world after Papua New Guinea. Most languages belong to the Austronesian language family, while there are over 270 Papuan languages spoken in eastern Indonesia...

language (Mandi'nka kango; Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau...

populations. However, none of these languages are dominant in Guinea-Bissau. French is taught as a foreign language in schools, because Guinea-Bissau is surrounded...

lists 826 languages of Papua New Guinea and 257 languages of Western New Guinea, total 1073 languages, with 12 languages overlapping.[clarification needed]...

are the official languages and spoken as second languages. Spanish is the language of education, and for this reason a majority of the population (about...

varieties as separate languages. They are listed in the box at the beginning of this article. Fulfulde is an official lingua franca in Guinea, Senegal, Gambia...

as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the...

king. It is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right. There are 839 known languages of Papua New Guinea, making it the most linguistically...

of Guinea adopted rules of transcription for the languages of Guinea based on the characters and diacritic combinations available on typewriters of that...

Guinea. "Equatorial Guinea, member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries". "Official languages of Mercosul as agreed in the Protocol of Ouro...

over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...

Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Guinea Ecuatorial; French: Guinée équatoriale; Portuguese: Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish:...

Coast and western Burkina Faso. Manding is part of the larger Mandé family of languages. The Manding languages, the differences from one another and relationships...

Chimbu or Simbu) is a language of Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea. In 1994, it was estimated that 80,000 people spoke Kuman, 10,000 of them monolinguals;...

Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast and the Gambia. Manding is part of the larger Mandé family of languages. Bambara is spoken...

Guinean Sign Language (PNGSL) is a sign language originating from Papua New Guinea. The standardised form of PNGSL was made an official language of Papua...

language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin, a simplified form that develops as a means of...

other languages) became the name of several specific Upper Guinean communities and their languages: the Guinean people and their Kriol language, Cape...