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2. Wolof language - Wikipedia

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   Wolof is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken natively by the Wolof people (40% of the population) but also by most other Senegalese as a second language. [3] Wolof dialects vary geographically and between rural and urban areas. The principal dialect of Dakar, for instance, is an urban mixture of Wolof, French, and Arabic. Wolof ...

3. Wolof people - Wikipedia

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   Wolof (/ ˈ w ɒ l ɒ f /) is a language of Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania, and the native language of the Wolof people. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, Wolof is not a tonal language. Wolof ...

4. Wolofization - Wikipedia

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   Wolofization or Wolofisation is a cultural and language shift whereby populations or states adopt Wolof language or culture, such as in the Senegambia region. In Senegal, Wolof is a lingua franca [1] [2] [3] The Wolofization phenomenon has taken over all facets of Senegal and encroaching on Gambian soil. [3]

5. Garay alphabet - Wikipedia

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   The Garay alphabet was designed in 1961, as a transcription system "[marrying] African sociolinguistic characteristics" according to its inventor, Assane Faye.This alphabet has 25 consonants and 14 vowels. [1]

6. Wolof - Wikipedia

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   Wolof or Wollof may refer to: . Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania; Wolof language, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania; The Wolof or Jolof Empire, a medieval West African successor of the Mali Empire from the 14th to 16th centuries in present-day Senegal

7. Thiam - Wikipedia

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   As a surname, Thiam is found among the Fula and Wolof people of Senegal and nearby countries, and originated from a family of goldsmiths. [1] [2] In the modern Fula language and Wolof language orthographies, it is spelled Caam.

8. List of English words of Niger-Congo origin - Wikipedia

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   chigger – possibly from Wolof and/or Yoruba jiga "insect" cola – from West African languages (Temne kola, Mandinka kolo) djembe – from West African languages; jazz – from West African languages (Mandinka jasi, Temne yas) jive – possibly from Wolof jev; juke, jukebox – possibly from Wolof and Bambara dzug through Gullah

9. Ndiadiane Ndiaye - Wikipedia

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   Wolof oral traditions hold that the Wolof language was created at Ndiaye's court by mixing the diverse languages of the empire including Fula, Serer and Mandinka. [34] The Wolof people originated in part from the mixing of Serer, Toucouleur and other peoples, and so contemporary ethnic and linguistic labels may have had very different meanings ...