the Niger Congo language phylum. Speakers of these languages are found in the Gambia, in the former Casamance region of Southern Senegal and in Guinea Bissau. The map in Figure 1, taken from Ethnologue, presents the languages of Senegal. The arrow on the map points to the Eegimaa speaking area (Bandial is the name used by Ethnologue for Eegimaa). Eegimaa is mainly spoken in Mof-Ávvi, a former kingdom of 10 villages located to the west of Ziguinchor, the capital city of the former administrative region of Casamance in the south of Senegal. Mof-Ávvi is a peninsula bordered by the Casamance River to the north, which separates it from the Jóola Búluf and Jóola Fogny areas, and to the east by the villages Brin and Djibonker, where the speakers