Jola, also written Diola, is the name for a cluster of related languages spoken in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, in The Gambia and in northern Guinea-Bissau. The languages belong to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. Jola-Fonyi is the most widely spoken variety and is often what people mean when they say Jola; other varieties include Jola-Kasa, and not all are mutually intelligible with one another. Speaker numbers are difficult to state precisely, but the varieties together account for several hundred thousand people. Most speakers also use Wolof, French or English, depending on which side of the colonial-era borders they live. Jola is written in the Latin alphabet where it is written at all; it remains primarily a spoken language.
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