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
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 :
b) Print publications / Editions imprimées :
1.4 Other comments / Autre commentaire
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
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
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
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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