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3. The Baiiibarra language is Mondiogo. At Sego, the Bambarra dialect 
of the Mandiugo was spoken and understood by Park; whilst a little higher 
up the Joliba, at Jenn^, a different language, that of Timbuctoo, was the 
only one intelligible. 
4. The langu£^e of Jallonkadoo is Mandingo; bat the language of Tirabo, 
south of Jallonkadoo, is not Mandingo, It is the Fulah of Foota-torro. 
5. The Sokko or Asokko language is Mandingo. The Sokko language 
is said to be spoken on the boundaries of the Ashantoi* country. 
This extent of the Mandingo area was recognized by the authors of the 
Mithridates, their d<Ua being most inipertect ; Park's vocabularies forming the 
main portion of them. 
Theeslensiou of the Alandingo dialects to the south of the Gambia is 
difficult to determine. As a general rule it seems to bo iulaud, rather than 
towards the ocean ; the eoast being occupied by— 
1. fiieFeloops along the coast between the Gambia and the Cacheo. — The 
Feloop numerals, as given by Park, constituted the whole of the language 
Mown in 1817 . The Feloop language is mentioned in this place for geogra¬ 
phical reasomv Etbaologically, it has not yet been show'n to be connected 
'nth the Mandingo. Vid. iufm. 
2. The Papels.— ^We have no specimens from the PapeU ; but they are said 
to s^l a separate langu^e. Their geographical position is to the south of 
is one of tlie lost Senegal vocabularies. 
3. Hic Baiantes,—South of the Papels and on the coast. No specimen 
Said, io the preface to the Senegal vocabularies, to be 
—Spoken in the neighbourhood of the Cacheo. Vid. 
C 2'ssagoto.—The inhabitants of the islands to the south of the 
^ospecimen of their language. Stated to be peculiar. ThcBis- 
l”*" jJI of the lost Stne^l vocabularies, 
th •* I ^sioos.—Native tribes inhabiting the sea-coast. No specimen of 
peculiar. The Naloo is one of the lost Senegal 
The Sapi.—Native tribes inhabiting the sea-coast. No specimen of their 
huiai^^ Staled to be peculiar. The Sapi is one of tlie lost Senegal voca- 
df^**^.*****^' north latitude is, there or thereabouts, the southern limit 
hmit^ Senegambia. It is also, there or thereabouts, the southern 
and ji \ , “"deified languages which He between the Mandingo area 
pitsenf^ The coast between the Rio Pongas and the Sherbrolliver 
1 separate languages known to u« by specimens. 
knf.L« tbe Pongas to Sierra Leone. The Susu was 
Adelutjg by— 
2 U rr "^ocadu/my of the Smu Lanrptage. Edinburgh, 1802. 
terminfln around and at the back of Sierra Leoue. Qon- 
s 'Vith the next language. Known to Vater by— 
S Lanyuage^ by .Vylander. 
leoiiP "p in the immediate neighbourhood of Sierra 
hotiom’a ■*'dli the Bullom. Known to Adelung by Winter- 
I^'na vocabularv.. 
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