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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.
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]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Wolof on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Wolof in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Mame Younousse Dieng in 2017. Mame Younousse Dieng (1939 – 1 April 2016) was a Senegalese writer born in Tivaouane who lived in Dakar.Her novel Aawo bi is noteworthy as one of the first Senegalese novels in the Wolof language.
LiteratureXchange Festival, Aarhus/Denmark 2022. Boubacar Boris Diop (born 26 October 1946) is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements (translated into English as Murambi: The Book of Bones), is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
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.
Dyao graduated in 1860 as one of the earliest graduates of Governor Faidherbe's Ecole des Otages, [7] [8] which was founded in 1855. [7] He was one of many West African authors during the colonial era who wrote chronicles on the history [9] (e.g., Wolof history) [8] and culture of the people [9] (e.g., Wolof) [8] of Senegal, to have their works translated by Maurice Delafosse, Octave Houdas ...
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 .