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Senegal is a multilingual country: Ethnologue lists 36 languages, Wolof being the most widely spoken language. French, is the only official language of Senegal, used mainly by the administration, the education and spoken by 26% of the total population. [1] Senegal is a member State of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
A Wolof speaker, recorded in Taiwan. Wolof (/ ˈ w oʊ l ɒ f / WOH-lof; [2] Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania.
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA . The Soninke language (Soninke: Sooninkanxanne , [ 2 ] سࣷونِکَنْخَنّࣹ ), also known as Serakhulle or Azer or Maraka , [ 3 ] is a Mande language spoken by the ...
Wolofal, like its parent system, the Arabic script, is an abjad.This means that only consonants are represented with letters. Vowels are shown with diacritics.As a matter of fact, writing of diacritics, including zero-vowel (sukun) diacritic as per the orthographic are mandatory.
Jola (French: Diola; Jola: Joola), also called Jola-Fonyi (French: Diola-Fogny) and Kujamataak, is a language spoken by 475,000 people in the Casamance region of Senegal, and neighboring countries. [1] Jola-Fonyi is one of several closely related Jola languages spoken in the area.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may have little to no chance of winning in Sunday’s election, but activists say her presence is helping to advance a ...
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Brezhoneg; Čeština; Cymraeg; Dansk; Davvisámegiella
The nomadic Fula people have also spread their languages from Senegal across the western and central Sahel. The most populous unitary language is Wolof , the national language of Senegal, with four million native speakers and millions more second-language users.