| Papel | |
| Nativename: | Oyum |
| States: | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal |
| Ethnicity: | Papel |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Ref: | e27 |
| Dia1: | Bolau |
| Dia2: | Botor |
| Dia3: | Bojimza |
| Dia4: | Bosafim |
| Dia5: | Bonzula |
| Dia6: | Bontin |
| Dia7: | Bomzum |
| Dia8: | Bowoar |
| Dia9: | Borawis |
| Dia10: | Bosez |
| Dia11: | Bopuul |
| Dia12: | Bosalnka |
| Dia13: | Bojaal |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Senegambian |
| Fam4: | Bak |
| Fam5: | Manjaku–Papel |
| Script: | Latin |
| Iso3: | pbo |
| Glotto: | pape1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Papel |
Papel (Pepel, Papei), or Oium (Moium), is a Bak language of Guinea-Bissau.
Papel is the language spoken by the Papel people, who live in the central coastal regions of Guinea-Bissau, namely the Biombo Region where it is spoken by 136,000 Bissau-Guineans. Papel speakers are estimated to be around 140,000 in total globally.[1]
Papel has 79,000 speakers living on Bissau Island (called (b)uhlawʔ or (b)usawʔ in Papel). Dialects include Biombo (Papel: uyomʔ) in the southwest and Safim (Papel: safli) in the northeast.[2]
Papel is part of the Bak language family based in the Senegal/Guinea-Bissau region, thus it is linguistically similar to the Mankanya and Mandjak languages, members of the 'Papel languages' a language sub-family. Today, Papel, along with its linguistic neighbours uses Latin-based script.