Ethnologue

Kasanga

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Cassanga, Guhaaca, Haal, I-Hadja, Kassanga

Population

May be a few elderly speakers left (Dimmendaal and Voeltz 2007).

Location

Cacheu region: Felupe border area, sparsely populated.

Language Maps

Language Status

8b (Nearly extinct).

Classification

Dialects

None known. Reportedly similar to Bainouk-Gunyuno [bab].

Language Use

Most have shifted to Mandinka [mnk] (Dimmendaal and Voeltz 2007). All also use Mandinka [mnk] (Dimmendaal and Voeltz 2007).

Language Resources

Other Comments

Traditional religion.