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Colors in Baynunk
In the following video Fatoumata Coly names the different colors in Baynunk.
Baynunk is spoken in Casamance (southern Senegal), as well as in neighboring Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. It is a North Atlantic language (Tenda-Nyun group) of the Niger-Congo family.
A 2006 census by ethnologue.com counted around 6,200 speakers of Baynunk, therefore standing as an « endangered language » according to UNESCO standards.
Baynunk is one of the 17 languages supported by a program of codification and recognition of minority languages, launched in Senegal in the 1970s. It has an official spelling system since 2005.
Watch all our 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