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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.
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.
The Wolof Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Wolof language.It currently has 1,707 articles. The Wikipedia was started in the beginning of 2005, along with the Bambara Wikipedia and the Fula Wikipedia.
Extra to the standard Wolof set is /ħ/, available for Arabic loan words. Lacking is /q/, but /k/ may suffice for that. Also lacking is /nk/, but that may easily be formed with a mark above, like /mb/ etc. [2] In Garay, uppercase letters are distinguished from lowercase letters by a swash added to one side or the other of the letter.
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 money-order with White genesis (French: Le mandat, précédé de Véhi Ciosane) is a book containing two novellas by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène, first published in French in 1966. An English-language translation was published in 1972. [1] It tells two stories.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pidgin Wolof is a pidgin language based on Wolof, spoken in the Gambia. [1] References