Wolofeg
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Ezhomm zo da vrezhonekaat ar pennad-mañ: pe lakaat en doare-skrivañ peurunvan , pe ober gant gerioù brezhonekoc'h. |
Labour zo d'ober c'hoazh a-raok peurechuiñ ar pennad-mañ. Ma fell deoc'h reiñ un tamm skoazell, krogit e-barzh. Mar karfec'h reiñ hoc'h ali ha netra ken, grit 'ta e pajenn ar gaozeadenn.
Ur yezh atlantel eus skourr ar yezhoù atlantel an norzh eo ar wolofeg (wolof).
3.2 million (mother tongue)
3.5 million (second language)
Senegal, Gambia, Maouritania Kornôg Afrika
Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania, and it is the native language of the ethnic group of the Wolof people. It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
Wolof is the most widely-spoken language in Senegal, spoken not only by members of the Wolof ethnic group (approximately 40% of the population) but also by most other Senegalese. Wolof dialects may vary between countries (Senegal and the Gambia) and the rural and urban areas. "Dakar-Wolof", for instance, is an urban mixture of Wolof, French, Arabic and English spoken in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
[kemmañ] Spreading and Neighborhood of the Wolof Language
About 40% (approximataly 3.2 million people) of Senegal's population speak Wolof as mother tongue. An additional 40% of the population speak Wolof as second or acquired language. In the whole region from Dakar to Saint-Louis, and also west and southwest of Kaolack, Wolof is spoken by the vast majority of the people. In Casamance and Senegal's west, Wolof is rarely used. The official language of Senegal is French.
In the Gambia, about 15% (approximately 200 thousand people) of the population speak Wolof as a first language, but Wolof has a disproportionate influence because of its prevalence in Banjul, the Gambia's capital, where fifty percent of the population use it as a first language. The official language of the Gambia is English. The Gambia's dominant languages, Mandinka (40%), Wolof (15%) and Fula (15%), also have official status.
In Mauritania, about 7% (approximately 185 thousand people) of the population speak Wolof. There, the language is used only around the southern coastal regions. Mauritania's official language is Arabic; French is used as lingua franca.
There is no officially standardized orthography for Wolof, but the language institute "Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar" (CLAD) is widely acknowledged as an authority when it comes to spelling rules for Wolof. Wolof is written with the letters of the Latin alphabet.
