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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the...

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...

Papua New Guinea. The majority of these languages belong to the Austronesian language family, prevalent in the western and central regions of Indonesia...

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

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

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...

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]...

Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau...

Jula, a trade language of Ivory Coast and western Burkina Faso. Manding is part of the larger Mandé family of languages. The Manding languages, the differences...

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...

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...

[citation needed] Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country, with over 820 indigenous languages, representing 12% of the world's total, but...

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...

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...

Halmahera–West New Guinea (SHWNG) languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, found in the islands and along the shores of the Halmahera Sea...

Language (ble)". The Rosetta Project. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-02-28. Wilson, William A. A. (2007). Guinea Languages of...

official language of Mongolia Mongolic languages, a group of languages spoken in East-Central Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas Languages of Papua...

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

Saramaccan, creole language of Suriname with vocabulary built based on English, Portuguese, and West and Central African languages Upper Guinea and Cape Verde:...

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