languages, gambia, gambia, mandinka, spoken, first, language, population, pulaar, wolof, soninke, percent, jola, percent, serer, percent, manjak, bainouk, percent, each, portuguese, creole, percent, english, percent, smaller, numbers, speak, several, other, la. In The Gambia Mandinka is spoken as a first language by 38 of the population Pulaar by 21 Wolof by 18 Soninke by 9 percent Jola by 4 5 percent Serer by 2 4 percent Manjak and Bainouk by 1 6 percent each Portuguese Creole by 1 percent and English by 0 5 percent Smaller numbers speak several other languages Gambian Sign Language is used by the deaf English is the main language for official purposes and education 1 Languages of the GambiaSign in English at a Gambian ministryOfficialEnglishRecognisedMandinka Pulaar Wolof Soninke Jola Serer Manjak Bainouk Portuguese CreoleVernacularGambian EnglishSignedGambian Sign LanguageKeyboard layoutQWERTYSee also edit nbsp Languages portal nbsp The Gambia portalDemographics of the GambiaReferences edit Gambia Ethnologue 24 2021 This Afroasiatic languages related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This Gambia related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Languages of the Gambia amp oldid 1163381331, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
