Bijago language

Bijago or Bidyogo is the language of the Bissagos Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau. Bidyogo is the "dominant mother tongue of the archipelago population", though it is not used in schooling there, a role that has been taken over by Kiriol since the 1990s. There are some difficulties of grammar and intelligibility between dialects, with the Kamona dialect being unintelligible to the others.

Dialects are as follows:

• Anhaki on Canhabaque (Roxa) Island
• Kagbaaga on Bubaque Island
• Kajoko on Orango and Uno Islands
• Kamona on the northern Caravela and Carache Islands