Badyara
Language · official in 1 country
Badyara goes by a long list of names, among them Badjara, Badyaranké, Pajade, Pajadinka and Kanjad. It is an Eastern Senegal-Guinea language whose home, in the one short article about it, is Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. Senegal counts it among the country's languages, and Senegal's country record lists it.
The language on record
- ISO 639-3
- PBP
- Script
- Latin
- Family
- Eastern Senegal-Guinea
- Official in
- 1 country
Where Badyara is official
Senegal is the one record, and a surprising one: its only official language is French, and Badyara appears there only on the country's list of languages.
Official beside Badyara
About Badyara
What Senegal's record means for Badyara
Senegal's constitution names French as the only official language. It also creates a class of national languages: six in the 1978 constitution, Diola, Mandinka, Pulaar, Serer, Soninke and Wolof, widened in 2001 to any indigenous language that has been codified, which requires an official orthography and adequate documentation. By 2023 the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages had recognised 25 indigenous languages and codified 22 of them. National languages are not languages of government, and the legal meaning of the category is vague.
Which names Badyara is known by
The variants include Badara, Badian, Badjara and Badyaranké, and the forms Jaad, Bigola, Gola, Kanjad, Pajade and Pajadinka. Beyond its place in the Eastern Senegal-Guinea group and its homeland in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, the source records little more.
Common questions
Questions about Badyara
Where is Badyara spoken?
In Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, according to its source article. Senegal lists it among its languages.
Is Badyara an official language of Senegal?
Senegal's country record lists it, but the constitution makes French the sole official language. Indigenous languages there can hold the lesser status of national language once they are codified with an official orthography.