Bedik language

Bedik
Ménik
Native to	Senegal
Native speakers	3,400 (2002)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Senegambian Tenda Basari–Bedik Bedik
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tnr`
Glottolog	`bedi1235`^[2]

Bedik (Budik, endonym Ménik, Onik), also Banda, is a Senegambian language of Senegal and Guinea spoken by traditional hunter-gatherers.

References

↑ Bedik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bedik". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Languages of Senegal

Official language	French

National languages	Balanta-Ganja Hassaniyya Jola-Fonyi Mandinka Mandjak Mankanya Noon Pulaar Serer Soninke Wolof

Indigenous languages	Bambara Bandial Bapeng Bassari Bayot Bedik Dyula Fula Gusilay Jola-Felupe Karon Kasa Kassonke Kobiana Laalaa Maninka Ndut Palor Safen Wamey Yalunka Zenaga

Jola	Bayot Fonyi Banjaal Gusilay. Ejamat Kasa Kuwaataay Karon Mlomp

Other	Balanta Bayot Bijago Mandjak Mankanya Papel

Fula–Tenda	Basari Bedik Bapeng Biafada Fula Konyagi Lehar Ndut Noon Pajade Palor Safen Serer

Others	Baga Pokur Banyum Kasanga Kobiana Mbulungish Nalu Wolof

Others

Authority control	LCCN: sh85012780 SUDOC: 032991703 BNF: cb123905188 (data)

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