Wolof (/ˈwoʊlɒf/ WOH-lof; Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia...
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Senegal, the Wolof are the largest ethnic group (~39.7%), while elsewhere they are a minority. They refer to themselves as Wolof and speak the Wolof language...
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Wolof in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wolof or Wollof may refer to: Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania Wolof language...
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Pidgin Wolof is a pidgin language based on Wolof, spoken in the Gambia. Norval Smith (1994). "26. An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages"...
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The Wolof Wikipedia is the edition of Wikipedia in the Wolof language. It currently has 1,701 articles. The Wikipedia was started in the beginning of 2005...
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Lebu Wolof (Lebou Oulof) is a language of Senegal that is closely related to, but not mutually intelligible with, Wolof proper. The distinctiveness of...
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The Wolof, the largest ethnic group in Senegal, have a distinctive musical tradition that, along with the influence of neighboring Fulani, Tukulor, Serer...
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Jolof Empire (redirect from Wolof Empire)
(Arabic: امبراطورية جولوف), also known as Great Jolof, or the Wolof Empire, was a Wolof state that ruled parts of West Africa situated in modern-day Senegal...
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Senegal (category Articles containing Wolof-language text)
a minority of the population. Over 30 languages are spoken in Senegal. Wolof is the most widely spoken one, with 80% of the population speaking it as...
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Senegambian languages (redirect from Fula–Wolof languages)
across the western and central Sahel. The most populous unitary language is Wolof, the national language of Senegal, with four million native speakers and...
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List of rulers of the Jolof Empire (redirect from List of Wolof Empire rulers)
The following is a list of rulers of the Jolof Empire. The Jolof Empire (French language – Diolof or Djolof) was a West African state that ruled parts...
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Senegal is a multilingual country: Ethnologue lists 36 languages, Wolof being the most widely spoken language. French, which was inherited from the colonial...
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Kingdom of Jolof (redirect from Wolof Kingdom)
known as Wolof and Wollof, was a West African rump state located in what is today the nation of Senegal. For nearly two hundred years, the Wolof rulers...
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Wolof have is at the expense of the Pulaar language. She states that people in Senegal will call themselves Wolof, despite not being ethnically Wolof...
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The Lebu (Lebou, Lébou) are a subgroup of Wolof in Senegal, West Africa, living on the peninsula of Cap-Vert, site of Dakar. The Lebu are primarily a...
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pitch accent due to its proximity with non-tonal neighboring languages like Wolof. Mandinka is here represented by the variety spoken in Casamance. There...
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accompanied by polyrhythmic sabar drumming of the Wolof, a social identity that includes both the original Wolof people of the Greater Senegambia region and...
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Ibrahim Niass (category Articles containing Wolof-language text)
Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975)—or French: Ibrahima Niasse, Wolof: Ibrayima Ñas, Arabic: شيخ الإسلام الحاج إبراهيم إبن الحاج عبد الله التجاني الكولخي Shaykh...
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The story of Ndiadiaye Ndiaye is recorded in the oral histories of the Wolof and Serer peoples. As such, there are many different versions, some of which...
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traditional African religions generally. 'Ceddo' is a Fula word for either the Wolof people or the Mandinka, depending on the dialect. It is unknown how it came...
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Thieboudienne (category Articles containing Wolof-language text)
Senegal. The version of tiep called thieboudienne, Ceebu Jën or chebu jen (Wolof: ceebu jën; French: thiéboudiène) is prepared with fish, broken rice and...
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recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage dish. The Jolof or Wolof Empire was a confederacy state that ruled parts of West Africa situated...
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consonant found in paralinguistic use in languages across Africa, such as Wolof. The tongue is in a similar position to other click articulations, such...
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The Gambia (category Articles containing Wolof-language text)
inter-racial relationship between Travelling Commissioner J. K. McCallum and Wolof woman Fatou Khan scandalized the administration. During World War II, some...
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relations between marabouts and Wolof chiefs remained relatively calm until a period of militant Islam in the Wolof states in the middle of the 19th...
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Garay alphabet (category Wolof language)
consonants and 14 vowels. It is used in particular for the writing of the Wolof language, spoken mostly in Senegal, although it is more often written in...
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Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba and Zulu Type Graphics software, Whiteboarding License SaaS...
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derivations: From the Serer Wolof word reer meaning 'misplaced', i.e. doubting the truth of Islam. From the Serer Wolof expression seer reer meaning...
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to join his father. Onana is a Muslim. He is fluent in five languages: Wolof, French, Dutch, German and English. Outside of football, he also makes rap...
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