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Cangin language spoken in Senegal
Palor
(Falor, Paloor) is a language spoken in
Senegal
. The speakers of this language - the
Palor people
or Serer-Palor, are ethnically
Serers
but they do not speak the
Serer-Sine language
. Like the
Lehar
,
Saafi
,
Noon
and
Ndut
languages, their language is classified as one of the
Cangin languages
attached to the
Niger?Congo
family. Palor is closer to Ndut.
Other names
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Sili
[2]
or
Sili-Sili
(the name for their language) and
Waro
(the name for themselves).
[1]
References
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- ^
a
b
Palor
at
Ethnologue
(18th ed., 2015)
(subscription required)
- ^
Wilson, William Andre Auquier. 2007.
Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification
. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Bibliography
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- Walter Pichl,
The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal
, Pittsburg, Pennsylvanie, Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20
- Paula D’Alton,
Le Palor. Esquisse phonologique et grammatical d’une langue cangin du Senegal
, Paris, 1987
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