Guinea Bissau - Guinée Bissau - Guiné Bissao

1. Language information / Données sur les langues

1.1 Languages spoken / Langues parlées :

a) Official / Officielle(s) :

No official language. Portuguese serves in this role de facto. Portuguese is also used in government and is the only language of instruction

b) National, indigenous / Nationale(s), indigène(s) :

About 20 (without legal status). Balanta, Pular, Mandjak, Mandinka, and Upper Guinea Creole ("Kriulo" - Portuguese-based) are the most widely spoken.

Ethnologue has an extensive list at http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=GW

c) Relevant pages in the Major Languages section of this report / Pages appropriées dans la section de ce rapport sur les Langues principales :

Fula (Pular), Manding

1.2 Language policy / Politique de langue

a) Laws/legislation / Lois/législation :

The site L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde has a page on Guinea-Bissau at http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/Guinee-Bissau.htm

b) Agencies / Agences :

Institut national de la recherche scientifique
B.P. 37 - BISSAU
(Source: UNESCO, 1985)

c) Languages in education/literacy / Langues dans l'éducation/l'alphabétisation :

UNDP (2006) gives a literacy figure (without reference to which language[s]) of: 40%

1.3 Writing in national/indigenous languages / Ecriture en langues nationales/indigènes

a) Orthographies / Orthographes :

An orthography for the languages of Guinea-Bissau was designed in 1946. (Lopes, 1946)

b) Print publications / Editions imprimées :

1.4 Other comments / Autre commentaire

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2. ICT situation / Situation des TIC

2.1 Infrastructure / Infrastructure

a) Telephones / Téléphones :'

• Fixed lines:
• Mobile subscriptions:

b) Radio stations / Stations de radio :

c) Connectivity / Connectivité :

• International internet bandwidth / Bande passante internationale d'internet :
• ISPs / FSI :
• Internet hosts :

2.2 Computer & internet access / Accès aux ordinateurs et à l'internet

a) Computers & points of access / Ordinateurs et lieux d'accès :

• Number of computers / Nombre d'ordinateurs:
• Cybercafés / Cybercafés:
• Project telecentres / Télécentres de projets:

b) Internet / Internet :

• Dial-up subscribers / Abonnés par ligne téléphonique :
• Internet users / Utilisateurs de l'internet : 26,000 Internet users as of Sept/05, 1.8% of the population, per ITU (Internet World Stats)

c) Other / Autre :

• Digital Opportunity Index (DOI): 0.04 (ITU 2006)

2.3 ICT policy / Politique de TIC

2.4 ICT4D/E & ICT training / TIC pour le développement/éducation, et formation en TIC

2.5 Resources / Ressources

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3. Localisation situation / Situation de localisation

3.1 Country web content / Contenu web du pays

3.2 Web content in indigenous languages / Contenu web en langues indigènes

(See also specific language pages.)

3.3 Software localisation / Localisation de logiciel

Not aware of any software localisation activities.

(See also specific language pages.)

3.4 Projects & organisations / Projets et organisations

3.5 Localisation policy / Politique de localisation

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4. References / Références

International Telecommunications Union (ITU). 2006. World Information Society Report 2006. Geneva: ITU. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/worldinformationsociety/2006/wisr-web.pdf

Internet World Stats: Africa. 2006. http://internetworldstats.com/africa.htm

Leclerc, Jacques. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde, "Guinée-Bissau," http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/Guinee-Bissau.htm

Lopes, E. C. (1946). O conhecimento das linguas da Guiné Portuguesa e a possibilidade de uma grafia una. Boletim cultural de Guiné Portugesa 1., pp. 453-456.

SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Languages of Guinea-Bissau," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=GW

UNDP. 2006. ''Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006.'' New York: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [Human development index Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) (HDI) http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statistics/indicators/3.html ]

UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African Community Languages and Their Use in Literacy and Education: A Regional Survey. Dakar: UNESCO.

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