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Languages of Guinea

The Linguasphere Register records 9 entries for Guinea, spread across 3 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

9Register entries
3Sectors present
6Zones
2Language entries

0= AFRICA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN

Register entries recorded in Guinea

CodeEntryLevelNote
00=MANDICZoneCovers the "Mande" grouping (part of the "Congo-Kordofanian", "new Niger-Congo" hypothesis; and part of the …
51-AAA-bbespañol-FInnerespañol académico, lingua castellana, "formal castillian spanish", "literary castillian", "standard castillian".
51-AAC-aefa-d'ambuInnerAnnobón island
51=ROMANICZoneCovers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
90=ATLANTICZoneCovers the "Atlantic" ("old West-Atlantic less Mel") reference area, within the "Transafrican" continental affinity.
94=MELICZoneCovers the "Mel" (southern "old West-Atlantic") grouping, part of the "Volta-Congo" affinity within the wider …
99=BANTUICZoneCovers the "broad Bantu", "narrow Bantu + Bantoid" or Isizulu + Tiv set (the central-southern section of "old …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.