| Language name: | WOLOF |
| UPSID number: | 4107 |
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| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, West Atlantic |
| This language has | 40 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.330044346 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b b: c dj dj: k qX f X m m: nj N "r[ ? i i: e e: o/ E E: a a: u u: o: O O: j w lD lD: t d g s n n: |
| Comment: | |
| Source(s): | Manessy, G. and Sauvageot, S. 1963. Notes Preliminaires to Wolof et Serer: Etudes de Phonetique et de Grammaire Descriptive. Universite de Dakar, Dakar. Sauvageot, S. 1965. Description Synchronique d'un Dialecte Wolof: le Parler du Dyolof (Memoires de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 73). IFAN, Dakar. Sauvageot, S. 1963. A short phonetic study of Wolof (Jolof) as spoken in the Gambia and in Senegal. Wolof et Serer (Manessy and Sauvageot, eds.) Universite de Dakar, Dakar. |