Thanks to the work of our team sent in April and May to Casamance, under the direction of young linguist Sokhna Bao-Diop, here are the numbers from 1 to 10, given by Fatou Binetou Coly.

The Baynunk language belongs to the big Niger-Congo family (North Atlantic branch, Tenda-nyun group). It is spoken in south Senegal, as well as in neighbouring Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.

In 2006 website Ethnologue.com estimated the number of speakers of Baynunk at 6,200. According to UNESCO criteria, it thus qualifies to be considered as an endangered language.

Baynunk is one of the 17 languages benefiting from the codification and recognition program for minority languages initiated in the 1970’s in Senegal.

Watch all the videos in Baynunk

Linguist: Sokhna Bao-Diop

Image & sound: Muriel Lutz, assisted by Cheikh Tidiane Sall
Editing: Caroline Laurent

Video created within the ANR Sénélangues project