Bandial language

Bandial
Banjaal
Spoken in Senegal
Region south of the Casamance River
Native speakers 11,200  (2006)
Language family
Dialects
Bandial
Affiniam
Elun
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bqj

Bandial (Banjaal), or Eegima (Eegimaa), is a Jola language of the Casamance region of Senegal. The three dialects, Affiniam, Bandial proper, and Elun (Hulon, also Kuluunaay, Kujireray) are divergent, on the border between dialects and distinct languages.