Bayot language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

• Atlantic - Congo Senegal -Guinea languages Bak Jola

Bda

The Bayot language, also known as Baiot, Baiote and Bayotte, is a West Atlantic language, especially in southern Senegal, southwest of Ziguinchor in a group of villages near Nyassia, in northwestern Guinea- Bissau along the Senegalese border and in Gambia is spoken.

She is a Jola language of Bak group of within the Niger -Congo language family.

Essin is a Dialektsubgruppe of Bayot, and has a lexical similarity of 15-18 % with the varieties of the Jula.

The Bayot had in 2006 a total of 18,790 speakers: 16,100 in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau in 2190 and a few hundred in the Gambia.